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A man standing still at a train station watches two boys throwing a baseball in a moving train. The train is moving east with a constant speed of 23 m/s and one of the boys throws the ball with a speed of 5 m/s with respect to himself toward the other boy, who is 5 m west from him. What is the velocity of the ball as observed by the man on the station?

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The velocity of the ball as observed by the man on the station is 5 m/s.

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