An Amazon package of mass 2 kg is released from rest at an Amazon warehouse loading dock and slides down a 3.0-m-high, frictionless chute to a waiting truck. Amazon warehouse workers have no breaks, but the truck driver really needed to use the restroom, so he sneaked out without having removed the previous package, of mass m, from the bottom of the chute. Suppose the packages stick together. If their common speed after the collision is 3 meters per second, what is the mass of the package at the bottom of the chute?

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An Amazon package of mass 2 kg is released from rest at an Amazon warehouse loading dock and slides down a 3.0-m-high, frictionless chute to a waiting truck. Amazon warehouse workers have no breaks, but the truck driver really needed to use the restroom, so he sneaked out without having removed the previous package, of mass m, from the bottom of the chute. Suppose the packages stick together. If their common speed after the collision is 3 meters per second, what is the mass of the package at the bottom of the chute? 

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