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A car of mass m, traveling with a velocity v, strikes a parked station wagon, who's mass is 2m.The bumpers lock together in this head-on inelastic collision. What fraction of the initialkinetic energy is lost in this collision?A) 1/2B) 1/3C) 1/4D) 2/3
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