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A hand cart loaded with vegetables collides with an identical but empty hand cart. During the collision: (i) the loaded cart exerts a larger force on the empty cart; (ii) the empty cart exerts a larger force on the loaded cart; (iii) neither exerts a force; (iv) both exert an equal magnitude of force on each other.
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The correct option is (iv) both exert an equal magnitude of force on each other.
By Newton's third law, the two carts exert equal and opposite forces on each other, regardless of their masses.
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