The greek philosopher Archimedes once said ”give me a lever arm long enough and a place to rest it, and I will move the world.” That’s quite excessive, so for now, we’ll be moving a car. Treat the car as a point mass with a weight of 17,000N. If you can apply a 120N force, what should be the ratio between the distance from the car to the fulcrum (R) and the distance from you to the fulcrum (r) to balance out the forces?

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