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Given information

The bullet's mass,  

The wood block's mass,  

The bullet's initial velocity,   
The wood block's initial velocity,  
Final velocity of the bullet,  

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

According to the law of momentum conservation, the momentum before a collision is equal to the momentum after a collision in an elastic collision.

 

Where,

= mass of the first ball
= initial velocity of the first ball
= mass of the second ball
 initial velocity of the second ball
 final velocity of the first ball
 final velocity of the second ball

 

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