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2001 AMC 10 Problem 20

A regular octagon is formed by cutting an isosceles right triangle from each of the corners of a square with sides of length 2000. What is the length of each side of the octagon?

\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{3}(2000) \qquad \textbf{(B) } {2000(\sqrt{2}-1)} \qquad \textbf{(C) } {2000(2-\sqrt{2})} \qquad \textbf{(D) } {1000} \qquad \textbf{(E) } {1000\sqrt{2}}


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