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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A meter stick with a mass of 0.17 kg is held perpendicular to a vertical wall by a cord of length d = 4.8 m attached to the end of the meter stick and also to the wall above the other end of the meter stick. Determine the tension in the cord.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I know that the picture should make a triangle with the cord being the hypotenuse, but I don't know where to get started with finding the tension

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