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Employing Hubble's Law, Calculate the Distance to the Andromeda Galaxy

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Employing Hubble's law, calculate the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy, which is approaching at
110 km/s.The directly measured distance to Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years.How do the two numbers agree or disagree? Explain.


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