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I've been working on this question and I just don't know how to arrive at the correct answer!
Here's my question.
Two identical cars, each traveling at 50km/h, one traveling north and one traveling east, collide at an intersection and become locked together.
What is the speed of the joint wreck immediately after the collision?
I tried using the pythagoras theorum to attempt finding the new speed.
Root(50^2 + 50^2) but this gave me a new speed of 70.7km/h which I believe is wrong since the are moving at a faster speed.
How do I solve this question?
Here's my question.
Two identical cars, each traveling at 50km/h, one traveling north and one traveling east, collide at an intersection and become locked together.
What is the speed of the joint wreck immediately after the collision?
I tried using the pythagoras theorum to attempt finding the new speed.
Root(50^2 + 50^2) but this gave me a new speed of 70.7km/h which I believe is wrong since the are moving at a faster speed.
How do I solve this question?