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Engineering, 24.03.2021 16:30 rachel2005smith

A 240-ton tugboat is moving at 6 ft/s with a slack towing cable attached to a 100-ton barge that is at rest. The cable is being unwound from a drum on the tugboat at a constant rate of 5.4 ft/s and that rate is maintained after the cable becomes taut. The velocity of the tugboat after the cable becomes taut is:

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