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A cannon is set on a wooden platform fitted with wheels. Total mass of cannon, cannonball, artillery man and platform is M, and that of a cannonball is m. What will be the velocity of the platform when n number of cannonballs are fired horizontally at velocity v?

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`(n mv )/(M - nm)`
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