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During a game of pool, a cue ball travels to the left with 70 N of force and collides with the four ball moving with a force of 50 N to the right. If you assign a negative value to the force moving to the right, what is the net force of this system?(1 point)
Responses

20 m/s2
20 m/s2

-20 N
-20 N

120 N
120 N

20 N

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
20 N

Explanation: Taking rightward forces as negative, the net force = +70 N (left) + (−50 N) (right) = +20 N, i.e., 20 N to the left.