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A man begins pushing a lawn mower across a lawn from a standing start. Which of the following is true?

a. You cannot tell whether the kinetic energy of the lawn mower is increasing or decreasing from the information given b. The man is decreasing the kinetic energy of the lawn mower
c. the kinetic energy of the lawn mower is not changing.
d. The man is increasing the kinetic energy of the lawn mower

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D.) The man is increasing the kinetic energy of the lawn mower.
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D. The man is increasing the kinetic energy of the lawn mower

We can guarantee that it is increasing because the kinetic energy was zero at the start and then became positive when he moved
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