A 35 kg child on roller skates is moving at 4 m/s to the right and catches a 5 kg medicine ball that was thrown at 8.7 mis to the left. What is the child's final velocity (holding the medicine bal)?

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A 35 kg child on roller skates is moving at 4 m/s to the right and catches a 5 kg medicine ball that was thrown at 8.7 mis to
the left. What is the child's final velocity (holding the medicine bal)? 

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