Answer:
The girl has greater tangential acceleration
Explanation:
The angular acceleration (
) of the merry go round is equal to the rate of the change of the angular velocity,
:

Since all the points of the merry go round complete 1 circle in the same time, the angular velocity of each point of the merry go round is the same, and so all the points also have the same angular acceleration.
The tangential acceleration instead is given by

where
is the angular acceleration
r is the distance from the centre of the merry go round
Since the girl is near the outer edge and the boy is closer to the centre, the value of r for the girl is larger than for the boy, so the girl has greater tangential acceleration.
The total energy equation would be Kinetic energy+Potential energy
D = distance between the cars at the start of time = 680 km
v₁ = speed of one car
v₂ = speed of other car = v₁ - 10
t = time taken to meet = 4 h
distance traveled by one car in time "t" + distance traveled by other car in time "t" = D
v₁ t + v₂ t = D
(v₁ + v₂) t = D
inserting the values
(v₁ + v₁ - 10) (4) = 680
v₁ = 90 km/h
rate of slower car is given as
v₂ = v₁ - 10
v₂ = 90 - 10 = 80 km/h