Question

A child pulls a wagon with a force of 58 N by a handle making an angle of 27 degrees with the horizontal. If the wagon has a mass of 4.5 kg, to the nearest hundredth of a m/s2 what is the acceleration of the wagon

Answer 1

the horizontal force is

58 cos27°

F = ma

so, plug in your numbers and solve for a.

Answer 2

.27