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An observer sets his watch by the sound of a signal fired from a tower yet he finds that his watch is slow by 5 s. Find the distance of the tower from the observer.The temperature of air during the observation is `20^@ C` and the velocity of sound in air at `0^@ C` is `332 ms^(-1)`.

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