Man sledding down 30-degree hill with friction and initial velocity

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DeepPatel said:
I had added 880J and I think I had to subtract. If I fixed the errors I now got an answer of 20.549 m/s
I get slightly less, but that should be close enough. Maybe you used a larger value for g.
 
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haruspex said:
I get slightly less, but that should be close enough. Maybe you used a larger value for g.
Yeah our teacher prefers we use 10 m/s2 instead of 9.81m/s2 to save us time and make it easier.