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A hunter has a machine gun that can fire 50 gm bullets with velocity 900 m/s. A 40 kg tiger springs at him with velocity 10 m/s. How many bullets must the hunter fire into the tiger in order to stop him in the track.

A

7

B

8

C

9

D

6

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C
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