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A 0.122-kg dart is fired from a gun with a speed of 107 m/s horizontally into a 5.00-kg wooden block. The block is attached to a spring with a spring constant of 8.56 N/m. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the horizontal surface it is resting on is 0.630. After the dart embeds itself into the block, the block slides along the surface and compresses the spring. What is the maximum compression of the spring?