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Given information

Let and be the masses of individual blocks.

then,  

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

In the case of elastic collision, Momentum conservation  between two particles of masses  and is given by 

 

where

are the initial speeds of masses and before the collision,

and  are the final speeds of the masses after the collision 

 

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