A Baby Weighing $8$ Pounds Compresses the Spring of a Baby Scale 5 Millimeters

question 61

Multiple Choice

A baby weighing $8$ pounds compresses the spring of a baby scale 5 millimeters. Use Hooke s Law to determine the weight of a baby that compresses the spring $4$ millimeters. Round your answer to one decimal place.

• A) \(5.8\) pounds
• B) \(7.4\) pounds
• C) \(7.2\) pounds
• D) \(5.2\) pounds
• E) \(6.4\) pounds

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Definitions:

Breast-feeding

The practice of feeding a baby with milk directly from the mother's breast, providing essential nutrients and antibodies.

Allergies

Immune system responses to foreign substances (allergens) that are typically harmless to most people, causing symptoms such as sneezing, itching, and swelling.

Bottle-feeding

Feeding a baby from a bottle filled with milk (either expressed breast milk or formula), as an alternative to breastfeeding, allowing others to feed the baby and facilitating measuring how much the baby consumes.

Standard Deviations

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean (average) of the data set.