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A passenger in a airplane flying over an anchored ship notices that ocean waves are smashing into the ship regularly at the rate of 9.0

A passenger in a airplane flying over an anchored ship notices that ocean waves are smashing into the ship regularly at the rate of 9.0 per minute. He knows that ocean waves of this frequency have a speed of 10. m/s. He also notices that the length of the ship is the same as about three wavelengths. Deduce the length of the ship from this information.

I got 200m but it says it's wrong.

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