Two mountain peaks are known to be 15 kilometers apart. A person located at a...

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Two mountain peaks are known to be 15 kilometers apart. A person located at a vista point such that a right angle is spanned when he looks from one peak to the other is told that the distances from the vista point to each peak differ by 3 kilometers. How far is the vista point from each mountain peak?

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