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Work out its distance from earth, taking Hubble’s constant to be 71 km s -1 Mpc -1.

9) A galaxy has a red-shift measured as 0.21. Work out its distance from earth, taking Hubble’s constant to be 71 km s -1 Mpc -1.

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