Estimate the mass of the canoe

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A 9.9kg dog takes a nap in a canoe and wakes up to find the canoe has drifted out onto the lake but now is stationary. He walks along the length of the canoe at 0.47m/s , relative to the water, and the canoe simultaneously moves in the opposite direction at 0.16 m/s What is the mass of the canoe?

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