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Standing at a crosswalk, you hear a frequency of 540 Hz from the siren of an approaching ambulance. After the ambulance passes, the observed frequency of the siren is 435 Hz. Determine the ambulance's speed from these observations. (Take the speed of sound to be 343 m/s.)
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