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Consider towing a small car and a fire engine.
What do their masses have to do with how hard it is to tow them?
Answer Key:
The fire engine will require more force to be towed because its mass is greater than the small car’s mass.
Did the student answer correctly?
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Consider towing a small car and a fire engine.
What do their masses have to do with how hard it is to tow them?
Answer Key:
The fire engine will require more force to be towed because its mass is greater than the small car’s mass.
Did the student answer correctly?
Responses
Yes
Yes
No
Answers
GPT-4o mini
Yes. The student answered correctly. The greater mass of the fire engine means that more force is needed to tow it compared to the smaller car, in accordance with Newton's second law of motion (F = ma), where force is dependent on mass and acceleration.