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title: "The manager of a department store is pushing horizontally with a force of magnitude \\( 200 \\) \\( \\text{N} \\) on a box of shirts. The box is sliding across the horizontal floor with a forward acceleration. Nothing else touches the box. What must be true about the magnitude of the force of kinetic friction acting on the box?"
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# The manager of a department store is pushing horizontally with a force of magnitude \( 200 \) \( \text{N} \) on a box of shirts. The box is sliding across the horizontal floor with a forward acceleration. Nothing else touches the box. What must be true about the magnitude of the force of kinetic friction acting on the box?

The manager of a department store is pushing horizontally with a force of magnitude \( 200 \) \( \text{N} \) on a box of shirts. The box is sliding across the horizontal floor with a forward acceleration. Nothing else touches the box. What must be true about the magnitude of the force of kinetic friction acting on the box?

- **A.** It is greater than \( 200 \) \( \text{N} \).
- **B.** It is less than \( 200 \) \( \text{N} \).
- **C.** It is equal to \( 200 \) \( \text{N} \).
- **D.** None of those statements is necessarily true.

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