Find the distance between the astronomers and the moon

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The during an Apollo moon landing, reflecting panels were placed man the moon. this allowed earth astronomers to shoot laster beams at the moon's surface to determine its distance from earth. the reflected laser beam was observed 2.84 s after the laser pulse was sent. if the speed of light is 3.00x10^8 m/s, what was the distance between the astronomers and the moon?

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