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title: "You are standing on a bathroom scale in an elevator. The elevator starts from rest on the first floor and accelerates up to the third floor, 12m above, in a time of 6s. The scale reads 800N. What is the mass of the person?"
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# You are standing on a bathroom scale in an elevator. The elevator starts from rest on the first floor and accelerates up to the third floor, 12m above, in a time of 6s. The scale reads 800N. What is the mass of the person?

You are standing on a bathroom scale in an elevator. The elevator starts from rest on the first floor and accelerates up to the third floor, \(12 \, \text{m}\) above, in a time of \(6 \, \text{s}\). The scale reads \(800 \, \text{N}\). What is the mass of the person?

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