When a 125-Kg Piece of Equipment Is Hung from a Steel

question 78

Multiple Choice

When a 125-kg piece of equipment is hung from a steel wire of diameter 6.00 mm, it stretches the wire by 4.00 mm. If instead the wire had a diameter of 3.00 mm, but all else were the same, by what distance would the same equipment stretch the wire?

• A) 4.00 mm
• B) 2.00 mm
• C) 1.00 mm
• D) 16.0 mm
• E) 8.00 mm

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