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Given information

Given the two projectiles have the same mass.

Pendulum height of the first projectile,     

Pendulum height of the second projectile,      

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Consider the diagram given below.

According to the conservation of momentum;

The momentum before collision is equal to the momentum after the collision.

From the figure, the mass of the bullet is .

The initial velocity of the system is .

The mass of the block is .  

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