A fox and an eagle lived at the top of a cliff of height 6m,

whose base was at a distance of y metres from a point A on the
ground. The fox descends the cliff and went straight to the point
A. The eagle flew vertically up to a height x metres and then flew
in a straight line to a point A, the distance traveled by each
being the same. Find the value of x if y is three times the x.

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2.72m

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