Question

At a really cold Halloween party a 4.25-kg pumpkin is tossed to a stationary 74.0 kg person who is sitting on the frictionless surface of a frozen pond. If the pumpkin is thrown with a velocity of 6.75 m/s, calculate the person’s velocity after catching the pumpkin. (Assume that this is a completely inelastic collision and the person simply slides on the ice.)

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