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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2021🎓 HS🔄 Round 4#️⃣ Question 16🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

An police car has a broken siren so that it produces a constant frequency of 1500 hertz at rest instead of oscillating frequency. The police car is chasing a stolen microphone at a speed of 77 miles per hour relative to the air, but the criminal is able to match their velocity exactly. Given that the speed of sound is 770 miles per hour, what frequency in hertz does the microphone measure?

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