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URGENT 30 POINTS Jake has to hit a bottle with a ball to win a prize he throws a 0.4 kg ballwith a velocity of 18 m / s. It hits 0.2 kg bottle and the bottle flies forward at 25 M / s how fast is the ball traveling after hitting the bottle?

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This is a conservation of momentum problem.
The answer is 5.50m/s in the opposite direction
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