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Question
The letters on the front of an ambulance are written laterally inverted like 
. Give reason.
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Solution
The letters on the front of an ambulance are written laterally inverted, so the driver of the vehicle moving ahead of the ambulance reads these words laterally inverted as AMBULANCE in his rearview mirror and gives side to pass the ambulance first.
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