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Interplanetary Travel: How Fast is the Spaceship Traveling?

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As measured in Earth's frame of reference, two planets are 436800 km apart. A spaceship flies from one planet to the other with a constant velocity, and the clocks on the ship show that the trip lasts only 1.24 s. How fast (in c) is the ship traveling?

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