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As part of an interview for a summer job with the Coast Guard,you have been asked to help determine the search area for twosunken ships by calculating their velocity just after an accident.According to the last radio transmission from the luxury linerApollo (3.9 × 104 metric tons), it was going due east at a steadyspeed of 21 knots in calm seas through a rare fog just before itwas struck broadside by the freighter Blake (6.1 × 104 metrictons), which was traveling north at steady speed of 11 knots. Thetransmission also noted that when the freighter's bow pierced thehull of the liner, the two ships stuck together and sank. What wasthe speed and direction of the ships after the collision ? (Takezero degrees to be straight east and counter-clockwise aspositive.)

1)____ knots

2)____ degrees

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Answer step1 given that mass m139104 metric tons mass m261104 metric tons Conservation 1Knot 051444 ms speed u121 knots 10803324 ms speed u211    See Answer
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