Your formula for this is 
and 
. Get everything on one side of the equals sign, set it equal to 0 and factor. When you do this you get (x-3)(x+27). The Zero Product Property rule tells us that either x-3 = 0 or x+27 = 0 and that x = 3 and -27. The only thing in math that will NEVER be negative besides time is distance/length, therefore, x cannot be 27 and has to be 3.
Find the value of x
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We can see that the diagonal distance from the fire pit to the tree is 6 units, if you count, with a slope of 1, meaning that we only have to stay on that diagonal.
A third of 6 is 2, so we'll just go 2 units in that diagonal, putting us at the point .
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