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A rescue plane flies horizontally at a constant speed searching for a disabled boat. When the plane is directly above the boat, the boat's crew blows a loud horn. By the time the plane's
sound detector receives the horn's sound, the plane has traveled a distance equal to half its altitude above the ocean. Assuming it takes the sound 1.86 s to reach the plane, and taking the
speed of sound to be 343 m/s, determine the following.
(a) the speed of the plane
m/s
(b) the altitude of the plane
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