Explanation In case of the elastic collisions, they always occur in the inertial frames while the inelastic collision occurs in the non-inertial frames. It is possible that one frame of reference is inertial and other being non-inertial at some moment...

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If a collision is elastic in one frame of reference and inelastic in other.

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