What is the speed of the two cars after the collision

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In the railroad freight yard, an empty freight car of massm rolls along a straight level track at 1.1 m/s and collides with an initially stationary,fully loaded boxcar of mass 3.9m.The two cars couple together upon collision.

a) What is the speed of the two cars after the collision? ___m/s
b) Suppose instead that the two cars are at rest after thecollision. With what speed was the loaded boxcar moving before thecollision if the empty one was moving at 1.1 m/s? ___m/s

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