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A 65 kg hunter, standing on frictionless ice, shoots a 30 g bullet at a speed of 700 m/s. What is the recoil speed of the hunter?
Draw a before and after diagram, define the system that you will use in the problem, write Newton's second law in terms of momentum, solve for the final answer symbolically, and finally plug in.
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