A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass $12 k g$ $12 kg$ and the second with mass $55 k g$ $55 kg$ . If the first weight is $5 m$ $5 m$ from the fulcrum, how far is the second weight from the fulcrum?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-03T11:09:12

Have a look at: http://socratic.org/s/aqKDPADA for a detailed explanation of the approach. It uses deferent values but the method is the same.

A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass 12kg12 kg and the second with mass 55kg55 kg. If the first weight is 5m 5 m from the fulcrum, how far is the second weight from the fulcrum?