A nice Olympiad qualifying question from the Philippines

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If a semicircle and its flipped copy are placed side by side, how much distance do they span from end to end? This is a neat problem adapted from a Mathematical Olympiad Qualifying Test in the Philippines. Can you figure it out?

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