document.write( "Question 537952: Elliot Street is 24ft wide when it ends at Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. A 40-ft long diagonal crosswalk allows pedestrians to cross Main Street to or from either corner of Elliot Steet. Determine the width of Main Street.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Presuming Elliot Street and Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont meet in precisely a right angle (and there is really no reason whatsoever to presume any such thing except that you can't solve the problem with the information given otherwise):\r
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