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A car (mass = 1080 kg) is traveling at 27.0 m/s when it collides head-on with a sport utility vehicle (mass = 2100 kg) traveling in the opposite direction. In the collision, the two vehicles come to a halt. At what speed was the sport utility vehicle traveling?

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