If You Measured the Distances and Recessional Velocities for a Sample

question 5

Multiple Choice

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

• A) 10 km/s/Mly
• B) 22 km/s/Mly
• C) 45 km/s/Mly
• D) 100 km/s/Mly

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