Question: A wagon with two boxes of gold, having total mass 300 kg, is cut loose from the horses by an outlaw when the wagon is

A wagon with two boxes of gold, having total mass 300 kg, is cut loose from the horses by an outlaw when the wagon is at rest 50 m up a 6.00 slope (Fig. 8.50). The outlaw plans to have the wagon roll down the slope and across the level ground, and then fall into a canyon where b is confederates wait. But in a tree 40 m from the canyon edge wait the Lone Ranger (mass 75.0 kg) and Ton to (mass 60.0 kg). They drop vertically into the wagon as it passes beneath them.
(a) If they require 5.0 s to grab the gold and jump out, will they make it before the wagon goes over the edge? The wagon rolls with negligible friction.
(b) When the two heroes drop into the wagon, is the kinetic energy of the system of the heroes plus the wagon conserved? If not, does it increase or decrease, and by how much?

A wagon with two boxes of gold, having total

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