Hint:

Draw a diagram and let d1 be the distance to the closer cliff and let d2 be the distance to the further cliff. The time to hear the first echo is the time it takes the sound to travel to the closer cliff and back, . The time to hear the second echo is the time it takes sound to travel to the further cliff and back, . The third echo is heard when the sound makes a complete round trip (to one cliff, to the other, and back to the person) so that . Use the fact that and to set up simultaneous equations for d1 and d2.

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