A Horseshoe Bat Is Most Sensitive at a Frequency of 76

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Essay

A horseshoe bat is most sensitive at a frequency of 76 kHz. What is the sound it needs to emit while flying toward a target at 5 m/s in order to hear the echo back at that frequency? The speed of sound in air is 343 m/s.

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