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Chapter 8, Problem 19P
* You place a 3.0-m-long board symmetrically across a 0.5-m-wide chair to seat three physics students at a party at your house. If 70-kg Dan sits on the left end of the board and 50-kg Tahreen sits on the right end of the board, where should 54-kg Komila sit to keep the board stable? What assumptions did you make?
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