Question: A playground merry - go - round has a radius of 4 . 0 m and a rotational inertia of 5 0 0 . 0

A playground merry-go-round has a radius of 4.0 m and a rotational inertia of 500.0 kgm2. It is initially spinning at 0.90 rad/s when a 20-kg child crawls from the center to the rim. When the child reaches the rim, the angular velocity of the merry-go-round is
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0.73 rad/s
0.91 rad/s
0.62 rad/s
1.1 rad/s
0.55 rad/s

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