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Standing at a crosswalk, you hear a frequency of 500 Hz from a siren of an approaching ambulance. After the ambulance passes, the observed frequency of the siren is 411 Hz. Determine the ambulance's speed from these observations (Take the speed of sound to be 343 m/s.)

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