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Given information

Let is the Mass of the baseball.   

is the Mass of the brick. 

is the Speed of baseball before the collision. 

is the Speed of brick after the collision. 

is the Speed of the brick before collision. 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

This is the case of elastic collision, hence equation of momentum for the system will be 

 

Before the collision, , =the speeds of masses and

After the collision, =the speeds of masses and

 

 

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