A police officer sees a suspicious object falling from a stationary position from the top of a 20-meter-high building, as shown in the figure, and fires a shot from a distance R from the building one second after the fall, hitting it 0.3 seconds later. (The magnitude of the gravitational acceleration is 10 m/s^2, ignoring the height from the ground to the pistol and the resistance of the air.)

(a) If a bullet is fired at a speed of 200 m/s, find the x and y components of its velocity, v_0x, v_0y, respectively.

(b) Find the horizontal distance traveled by the bullet, R.

  

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