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"Ah, my diamond necklace is gone!" A scream came from a room in a five-star hotel. A wealthy woman angrily told the security guard that her diamond jewelry had been stolen and demanded compensation from the hotel. After receiving the report, the chief of police immediately rushed to the scene and asked the lady for details. The lady said, "I had just finished showering, and when I opened the bathroom door, I saw a man dressed in black, about 180 cm tall, running out of my room through the bathroom mirror." The chief of police looked at the bathroom mirror and asked, "Are you sure you saw it in this mirror?" The lady nodded affirmatively. The chief of police smiled and said, "Drop your disguise—you only did this to get the compensation money." Do you know what the chief of police based his conclusion on?
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Oh, let me talk about my reasoning. I'm about 180 cm tall and have studied physics, so that mirror must be at least 90 cm. But if it's a bathroom mirror, it would hang on a half wall, so that mirror couldn't be 90 cm, which makes it impossible to determine the height. This is purely my guess... if not, when you open the bathroom door, you should be facing away from the mirror, so how could you see the pinch? There must be one correct answer, right?
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