A 75-kg man has a dose of 32.8 rad of radiation. How muchenergy is absorbed by his body? Compare this energy to theamount of energy absorbed by his body if he jumps from a chairto the floor (assume that the chair is 0.50 m from the ground andthat the man absorbs all of the energy from the fall).

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