A body of mass m moving with a constant velocity v hits another body of the same mass moving with the same velocity but in the opposite direction and sticks to it. The velocity of the compound body after the collision is?
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- Twice the initial velocity
- Half the initial velocity
- The same as the initial velocity
- Zero
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