For full marks, your submitted working must include fully labeled shear and moment diagrams.

Determine the magnitude of the maximum bending moment in the beam in terms of absolute value. Express your result in units of $kNm$ with $2$ decimal places of accuracy.

$M_{\text{m}\text{a}\text{x}}=kNm$

Where does the maximum bending moment occur along the length of the beam? Express your result in terms of the distance from point A in metres using $3$ decimal places of accuracy.

$x=|,m$

At the location of the maximum bending moment along the length of the beam, is the top of the beam in tension or compression?

compression