A 2035 kg Oldsmobile traveling east on Saginaw Street at 15.8 m/s is unable to stop on the ice covered intersection for a red light at Abbott Road. The car collides with a 4012 kg truck hauling animal feed north on Abbott at 10.5 m/s. The two vehicles remain locked together after the impact. Required:
Calculate the velocity of the wreckage immediately after the impact.

30 points - when can a theory be modified if a new type of technology allows for new observations that raise new questions? a. immediately, while the questions about the theory are being asked b. after new hypotheses related to the theory are tested in experiments c. only after the new observations disprove all parts of the theory d. while scientists begin to think about how the theory could improve