Question: A 1 2 0 0 - kgkg compact SUV is moving along a straight highway at 1 2 . 0 m / sm / s

A 1200-kgkg compact SUV is moving along a straight highway at 12.0 m/sm/s. A large car, with mass M==2000kgkg and speed V==18.5m/sm/s has its center of mass 40.0 mm ahead of the center of mass of the SUV. Suppose the car had been traveling to the left with speed 18.5m/sm/s , instead of to the right (with the SUV's motion unchanged). In such a case, the car would of course be in the other lane of the highway so as to avoid a head-on collision. What would the speed of the center of mass of the system have been in such a case?

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