A soldier with a machine gun, falling fr...

A soldier with a machine gun, falling from an airplane gets detached from his parachute. He is able to resist the downward acceleration if the shoots 40 bullets a second at the speed of 500 m/s. If the weight of a bullet is 49 gm, what is the weight of the man with the gun ? Ignore resistance due to air and assume the acceleration due to gravity `g = 9.8 ms^(-2)` -

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50 kg

B

75 kg

C

100 kg

D

125 kg

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