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A person on a ship sailing north sees two lighthouses which are 6 km apart, in a line due west . After an hour's tailing one of them bears south west and the other southern south west. The ship is travelling at a rate of

A

12 km/hr

B

6 km/hr

C

`3sqrt2` km/hr

D

`(6+3sqrt2)` km/hr

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