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The speed of sound in vacuum is zero. Sound needs a material medium in order to

propagate. Since vacuum contains no material medium, sound does not propagate.

Therefore, it never moves from the source of the sound, and the

Speed = (distance covered in any time interval) divided by (time to cover the distance)

is zero.

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