HELP PLEASE Spherical Sound Waves Problem

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A jackhammer, operated continuously at a construction site, behaves as a point source of spherical sound waves. A construction supervisor stands 63.5 m due north of this sound source and begins to walk due west. How far does she have to walk in order for the amplitude of the wave function to drop by a factor of 2.10?

Could someone point me in the right direction on solving this please?
 
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take origin as place where jackhammer is
y_0 is where supervisor at the beggining.
you know that amplidute falls with the distance as \frac{A_0}{r}

assume that supervisor walks in positive x direction distance s
 
ok...but I'm still confused about what to do with these relationships and the numbers given in the problem
 
\frac{A_0}{r}=2.1
=>r=\frac{A_0}{2.1}

finaly

y_0^2+x^2=r^2=(\frac{A_0}{2.1})^2
 
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