Jessica is at the Grand Canyon. She stands on one of the ledges and utters out a note. It travels to a distant wall, bounces off that, and travels back to her in 20 seconds. If the note she made was traveling at 1000 meters per second, how far away was the wall?
If it takes 20 seconds and the note is traveling 1,000 meters per second, that means the distance was overall 20,000 meters total. Then halfway (to the wall) would have been 10,000 meters.