The sketch shows a painter's scaffold in mechanical equilibrium.The person in the middle weighs 500N ,and the tensions in each rope are 400N.What is weight of scaffold?

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The sketch shows a painter's scaffold in mechanical equilibrium.The person in the middle weighs 500N ,and the tensions in each rope are 400N.What is weight of scaffold?

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