600 Joules of work is used to lift a box from the ground to a height of six meters. How much work would have been done if a lever would have been used with an effort arm of 12 meters and a load arm of 6 meters?(1 point)
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600 J
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600 J

An ideal lever doesn't change the work: effort = (load)(6/12) = load/2, effort distance = 6 m × (12/6) = 12 m, so work = effort × distance = (load/2)×12 m = load×6 m = 600 J.