An Amazon warehouse forklift is fitted with a 2.5 HP motor to lift pallets to the highest shelf which is 12 m above the floor. If the heaviest pallet Amazon allows is 1.2 metric tons, what is the amount of time it takes the forklift driver to raise the 1.2 metric ton pallet to the top shelf?

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An Amazon warehouse forklift is fitted with a 2.5 HP motor to lift pallets to the highest shelf which is 12 m above the floor. If the heaviest pallet Amazon allows is 1.2 metric tons, what is the amount of time it takes the forklift 
driver to raise the 1.2 metric ton pallet to the top shelf?

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