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You live on a street that runs East to West. You just had 2 inche of snow and you live on the North side of the street. You return from class at 2PM and notice all the snow on your sidewalk is gone but across the street it is still there. No one removed the snow. How did it go away?

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Answer:

The heat from the sun melted it

Step-by-step explanation:

If the street runs east to west, houses on the south (across the street) will project shadows on their sidewalk, while the northern sidewalk will be illuminated. This is for the northern hemisphere, on the southern hemisphere it would be the other way around.

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