A light-weight potter's wheel, having a moment of inertia of is spinning freely at 40.0 rpm. The potter drops a small but dense lump of clay onto the wheel, where it sticks a distance 1.2 m from the rotational axis

If the subsequent angular speed of the wheel and clay is 32 rpm, what is the mass of the clay?
A) 3.7 kg B) 4.6 kg C) 4.2 kg D) 2.8 kg


C

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