Cosmonaut Andrei, your co-worker at the International SpaceStation, tosses a banana at you at a speed of 17 m/s. At exactly the same instant, you fling ascoop of ice cream at Andrei along exactly the same path. Thecollision between banana and ice cream produces a banana split7.2 m from your location 1.2 s after the banana and ice cream werelaunched.
How fast did you toss the ice cream?
How far were you from Andrei when you tossed the ice cream?