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Grade upto college level Mechanics

Each minute, a special game warden's machine gun fires 220, 12.6-g rubber bullets with a muzzle velocity of 975 m/s. How many bullets must be fired at an 84.7-kg animal charging to- ward the warden at 3.87 m/s in order to stop the animal in its tracks? (Assume that the bullets travel horizontally and drop to the ground after striking the target.)

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11 Years agoGrade upto college level
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Profile image of Deepak Patra
11 Years ago
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Therefore, 27 bullets are required to stop the animal charging towards the warden.