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Answer:

Hi Jada,  this type of problem shows up on Brainly sooo often.  I feel like the teachers don't  know how to explain this type of problem b/c so many people can't get these.   My question to you is....  do you feel like your teacher has explained this well?   :/

Step-by-step explanation:

this is also a trick type of question.  the smaller triangle is a "similar" triangle to the bigger one.  we can tell b/c they share the one side x.  it's part of each of them and they are both right triangles sooooo

24 / x = x /3

72 = [tex]x^{2}[/tex]

8.48528 = x