Andrea is building a birdhouse. She hammers a nail in the wrong place and needs to remove it. She uses the back of her claw hammer to hold the nail and pushes the handle to remove the nail, as shown in the diagram.
Andrea is using the hammer as a simple machine to pry the nail out. What is the mechanical advantage of the hammer?
6.2 cm
15.5 cm
MA = Effort/Load
a. 0.2
b. 5.4
c. 0.4
d. 2.5
To determine the mechanical advantage of the hammer, we need to know the effort and load involved in removing the nail.
Since the problem does not provide this information, we cannot calculate the exact mechanical advantage of the hammer.
Therefore, the correct answer is e. "Insufficient information provided."