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A boy is standing on the ground and flying a kite with 100m of string at an elevation of `30o` . Another boy is standing on the roof of a 10 m high building and is flying his kite at an elevation of `45o` . Both the boys are on opposite sides of both the kites. Find the length of the string that the second boy must have so that the two kites meet.

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