If You Measured the Distances and Recessional Velocities for a Sample

question 92

Multiple Choice

If you measured the distances and recessional velocities for a sample of galaxies and plotted the data to get the figure shown below, what value would you derive for the Hubble constant?

• A) 10 km/s/Mpc
• B) 50 km/s/Mpc
• C) 70 km/s/Mpc
• D) 100 km/s/Mpc
• E) 500 km/s/Mpc

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