Question

Ropes 3 m and 5 m in length are fastened to a holiday decoration that is suspended over a town square. The decoration has a mass of 4 kg. The ropes, fastened at different heights, make angles of 52° and 40° with the horizontal. Find the tension in each wire and the magnitude of each tension. (Use g = 9.8 m/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity. Round your answers to two decimal places.)

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Answer 1

post it in the physics section

Answer 2

Okay! I wasn't sure since it was a calc problem.

Answer 3

Did you do this prob already?

Answer 4

Not yet! I started something, but it's not the right answer.

Answer 5

First resolve each of the tensions in the ropes into horizontal and vertical components