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Top-down view of two fragments moving along the axes immediately following the explosion.
Top-down view of two fragments moving along the axes immediately following the explosion.
An aerial fireworks shell is momentarily at rest at the highest point of its trajectory when it explodes into exactly three fragments. Immediately after the explosion, a \(0.50 \text{ kg}\) fragment travels due east along the \(+x\)-axis at \(24 \text{ m/s}\), and a \(1.0 \text{ kg}\) fragment travels due north along the \(+y\)-axis at \(16 \text{ m/s}\). If the third fragment has a mass of \(0.80 \text{ kg}\), what is the speed of the third fragment immediately after the explosion?

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