A man standing between two parallel hills, claps his hand and hears successive echoes at regular intervals of 1 s. If velocity of sound is 340 m s –1 , then the distance between the hills is
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Let the man M be at a distance x from hill 
and y from hill 
as shown in figure, Let 
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