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A bat flying toward a wall emits a 49000-Hz sonar pulse. The pulse is reflected back from the wall and the bat hears the reflected pulse at a frequency of (49000 + 430) Hz. Take the speed of sound to be 343 m/s.
Find the speed of the bat, in meters per second.
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