EXAMPLE 1 Direct Variation During a thunderstorm you see the lightning before you hear the thunder because light travels much faster than sound. The distance between you and the storm varies directly as the time interval between the lightning and the thunder. (a) Suppose that the thunder from a storm 5400 ft away takes 5 s to reach you. Determine the constant of proportionality, and write the equation for the variation. (b) Sketch the graph of this equation. What does the constant of proportionality represent? (c) If the time interval between the lightning and thunder is now 8 s, how far away is the storm?

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