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When you trip, your foot stops, but your body continues to move forward. Which statement best explains why this happens?

a. An unbalanced force pushes your body forward
b. The unbalanced force that stops your foot pulls your body forward
c. Newton's Second Law of Motion pushes your body forward after your foot stops
d. An unbalanced force stops your foot but does not act on the rest of your body

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The statement that best explains why your body continues to move forward when you trip is:

d. An unbalanced force stops your foot but does not act on the rest of your body.

When you trip, your foot encounters an obstruction that applies a force to it, causing it to stop. However, due to inertia (the tendency of an object to continue in its state of motion), your body continues moving forward since no force has stopped it in the same way.