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A 100 kg gun fires a ball of 1 kg horizontally from a cliff of height 500 m. It falls on the ground at a distance of 400 m from the bottom of the cliff. Find the recoil velocity of the gun. (Take g = 10 `ms^(-2)`)

A

`0.2 ms^(-1)`

B

`0.4 ms^(-1)`

C

`0.6 ms^(-1)`

D

`0.8 ms^(-1)`

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`0.4 ms^(-1)`
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