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A 900-kg compact car moving at 60 mi/hr has approximately 320 000 Joules of kinetic energy. Estimate its new kinetic energy if it is moving at 30 mi/hr

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You need to divide 320000 by 2 since the speed was divided by 2. The final answer is ...... 160000 Joules.

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