MEDAL GIVEN TO CORRECT ANSWER.
Two cars collide in an intersection. The hoods of both cars collapse and the two cars rebound off each other. What type of collision was this?

A. Perfectly inelastic
B. Inelastic
C. Elastic
D. It was not a collision.

Question

MEDAL GIVEN TO CORRECT ANSWER. 
Two cars collide in an intersection. The hoods of both cars collapse and the two cars rebound off each other. What type of collision was this?

 		A.	Perfectly inelastic
 		B.	Inelastic
 		C.	Elastic
 		D.	It was not a collision.

anonymous · Answer

Inelastic because some energy went into the hoods being collapsed