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A locomotive engine can go 40 km/hr. Its speed gets reduced by a quantity that varies directly as the square root of the number of wagons attached. It is known that its speed becomes 16 km/hr if 36 wagons are attached. What is the smallest number of wagons with which the engine is unable to move?

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