SOLUTION: Sound travels through air at 330 meters per second. How long will it take a bath cry to reach its prey and echo back in the prey is 1 meter away from the bat?

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Question 1106167: Sound travels through air at 330 meters per second. How long will it take a bath cry to reach its prey and echo back in the prey is 1 meter away from the bat?
Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It is 2 meters roundtrip
2/330 seconds or 0.006 seconds.

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