Homework Help: Physics??

Posted by starry on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 6:45pm.

Two children sit 2.60 m apart on a very low-mass horizontal seesaw with a movable fulcrum. The child on the left has a mass of 29.0 kg, and the child on the right has a mass of 38.0 kg. At what distance, as measured from the child on the left, must the fulcrum be placed in order for them to balance?

Physics?? - Damon, Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 6:51pm
29 x = 38(2.6-x)
Physics?? - Trr, Friday, June 8, 2012 at 5:58pm
1.93

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