How was John Milltons Paradise Lost influenced by Virgils Aeneid?

Milton, in Paradise Lost, references a “father work” of sorts when he creates his characters and guides the story line. The Aeneid by Virgil is a father text to Paradise Lost. ... Aeneas is the hero of Virgil's poem, and Satan is the enemy of God in Milton's Christian poem.

Explanation:

answer: this problem has only trivial solutions, with all points on the same line. x=5 or x=7/5.

step-by-step explanation:

there are three triangles, and three unknowns: x, y=length of middle segment, and z=cos(angles marked with red arc).

we need

and law of cosines,

the three equations are

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