Question

A woman pushes 50 N lawn mower with a force of 25 N. If the handle of the lawn mower is 45 degree above the horizontal, how much downward force is the lawn mower exerting on the ground?

Answer 1

so the best thing to do here is draw what's called a free body diagram which is a picture that represents all the forces acting on the object

Answer 2

now based on the picture we see that the force of pushing on the lawn mover has an x component and a y component