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A 10g bullet is fired from a rifle horizontally into a 5kg block of wood suspended by a string and the bullet gets embedded in the block. The impact causes the block to swing to a height of 5 cm above its initial level. Calculte the velocity of the bullet.

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`496 m*s^(-1)`
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