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In a strange form of billiards, the cue ball is one third the mass of the other balls, which are stripy. There is no spin, and I hit a stripy ball centrally with the cue ball (travelling at 1.4ms −1) such that the cue ball rebounds in the opposite direction with half of its initial speed. What is the speed of the stripy ball?