Measure the angle between the lights and use trigonometry to calculate the base of the skinny triangle.
can you do it?
It has been many years since I last tackled such a problem and would have to resort to the textbooks for formulae and tables but the big problem would be accurately measuring the angle between the lights.
The best way to obtain an accurate angle would probably be more calculations from the triangle formed between 2 equally long straight poles or rods aimed at the lights from a common point and then measuring the distance between them to obtain a known base length.
A rough calculation could be made by dividing the length of the rod into the 30 mile distance and then multiplying the result by the base length to discover approximately how far apart the lights are.
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You say it is 30 miles away because you know the route to the specified location. 16 miles means that the distance directly from your location to the specified location.
SOURCE: What is the distance represented by 3.2 inches if the scale 1 inch = 30 miles is used
This would come out to 90.6 miles, so 90 and a little over 1/2 mile. Good Luck Friend.
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