A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass $6 k g$ $6 kg$ and the second with mass $4 k g$ $4 kg$ . 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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A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass $6 k g$ $6 kg$ and the second with mass $4 k g$ $4 kg$ . 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 · 2016-02-25T16:13:55

Second weight is $7.5$ $7.5$ $m$ $m$ far from fulcrum.

Explanation:

Let the the second weight be $x$ $x$ $m$ $m$ far from the fulcrum.

As the lever is balanced, moment ( $M = F \cdot d$ $M=F*d$ , where $F$ $F$ is force applied and $d$ $d$ is its distance from fulcrum) of the two weights should be equal.

Moment of first weight is $6 \cdot 5 = 30$ $6*5=30$ and as it balances second weight of $4$ $4$ kg, the latter's distance should be

$\frac{30}{4} = 7.5$ $30/4=7.5$ $m$ $m$ .

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