To lift a patient, four nurses grip the sheet on which the patient is lying and lift upward. If each nurse exerts an upward force of 344.2 N and the patient has an upward acceleration of 0.44 m/s/s, what is the weight of the patient?

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To lift a patient, four nurses grip the sheet on which the patient is lying and lift upward. If each nurse exerts an upward force of 344.2 N and the patient has an upward acceleration of 0.44 m/s/s, what is the weight of the patient? 

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