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A 32.2 kg cart traveling at 0.08 m/s (this movement defines the positive direction) has a head on perfectly inelastic collision with a 20.7 kg cart. The joined cart travels with a velocity of 1.973 m/s. What was the velocity of the second cart prior to the collision?

m/s?

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