A man of negligible height stands on a straight road. He observes that the subtended on the road by two objects is . From this point, he walks a distance of along the road. He then stops and observes the two objects form a which subtends an angle of with the road. The distance between the two objects ( ) is . Details and Assumptions :
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Simple trigo to get 4/sqrt3 as answer