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In an elastic collision, a 350 kg bumper car collides directly from behind with a second, identical bumper car that is traveling in the same direction. The initial speed of the leading bumper car is 4.90 m/s and that of the trailing car is 5.70 m/s. Assuming that the mass of the drivers is much, much less than that of the bumper cars, what are their final speeds (in m/s)?

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v1' ≈ 4.69 m/s
v2' ≈ 5.91 m/s
Sorry if wrong
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