How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Tension in a Frictionless System?

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a 21 kg block sliding on a 13 kg block. All surfaces are frictionless. Find the magnitude of acceleration of each block and the tension in the string that connects the blocks.
Find the acceleration m/s2 (acceleration of blocks)?
and the force N (tension in string) ?

Have found Efy to be 301.5 and Efx to be -82.01, i set the Efy equal to 0 but i don't know if I am suppose to add the Efy to the Efx before I set that information equal to M*a to get the acceleration
 
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