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If a monkey floating in outer space throws his hat away, the hat and the monkey will both move away from each other, but at different speeds.
Assuming that the floating monkey is in deep space away from any celestial bodies with a strong gravitational force and the hat is outside of the spacesuit and less massive than the monkey, then the hat and the monkey both will move away from each other, but at different speeds. On the basis of law of attraction, when the monkey threw the hat forward, the hat would push the monkey back.
As the monkey is heavier compared to the hat, its acceleration would be smaller than that of a hat which is less massive.
Due to this, the monkey moves back slower compared to that of a hat which moves forward at a greater speed.
They cannot move away from each other at the same speeds unless the mass of both the bodies is same. There is no friction in space so, there is nothing that would slow down their motion or let them stop unless they collide with other bodies in space.
The question is incomplete. The missing options are A) move away from each other, but at different speeds B) move away from each other at same speed C) move a short distance and then slow down D) move a short distance and then go faster E) come to a stop after few minutes
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