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Two Automobiles Traveling at Right Angles to Each Other Collide

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Two automobiles traveling at right angles to each other collide and stick together.Car A has a mass of 1200 kg and had a speed of 25 m/s before the collision.Car B has a mass of 1600 kg.The skid marks show that,immediately after the collision,the wreckage was moving in a direction making an angle of 40° with the original direction of car A.What was the speed of car B before the collision,assuming that any other unbalanced forces are negligible?


A) 16 m/s
B) 18 m/s
C) 11 m/s
D) 21 m/s
E) 14 m/s

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