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Working with Force and MassAt the grocery store you place
Chapter 1, Problem 11P(choose chapter or problem)
At the grocery store you place a pumpkin with a mass of \(12.5 \mathrm{lb}\) on the produce spring scale. The spring in the scale operates such that for each \(4.7 \mathrm{lbf}\) applied, the spring elongates one inch. If local acceleration of gravity is \(32.2 \mathrm{ft} / \mathrm{s}^2\), what distance, in inches, did the spring elongate?
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QUESTION:
At the grocery store you place a pumpkin with a mass of \(12.5 \mathrm{lb}\) on the produce spring scale. The spring in the scale operates such that for each \(4.7 \mathrm{lbf}\) applied, the spring elongates one inch. If local acceleration of gravity is \(32.2 \mathrm{ft} / \mathrm{s}^2\), what distance, in inches, did the spring elongate?
ANSWER:Solution 11P
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To find at what distance in inches will the spring elongate.
Given,
The spring in the scale operates for