A 10-kg ed crying a 30-kg child rides on a horizontal. hictiontess surface at a speed of 6.0 m/s toward the east. The child jumps off the back of the self, propelling to forward 20m/s. What was the child's velocity in the horizontal direction relative to the ground at the instant she left the sled?

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A 10-kg ed crying a 30-kg child rides on a horizontal. hictiontess surface at a speed of 6.0 m/s toward the east. The child jumps off the back of the self, propelling to forward 20m/s. What was the child's velocity in the horizontal direction relative to the ground at the instant she left the sled?
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