A 2,600-pound wrecking ball is held in static equilibrium by two cables, one horizontal and one at an angle of 40° from vertical (see the figure below). Find the magnitudes of the tension vectors T and H. (Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)   |T|  =  lb |H|  =  lb

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A 2,600-pound wrecking ball is held in static equilibrium by two cables, one horizontal and one at an angle of 40° from vertical (see the figure below). Find the magnitudes of the tension vectors T and H. (Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)

 
|T|  =  lb
|H|  =  lb
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