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The above picture shows a wave moving in the positive x-direction (the solid line is the wave at the present time and the dashed line is the wave at a future time). The distance d = 0.65 cm is traveled in 0.072 s and the spacing between tick marks on the x-axis is 0.5 cm. What is the wavelength of the wave?
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0.02 m
0.01 m
0.03 m
0.04 m
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