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An empty truck and a fully loaded truck are next to each other at a traffic light. When the light turns green, the lighter truck increases speed more quickly. Which of these best explains this situation?

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It is lighter with less mass so it can get grip faster and speed up faster because it doesn't have as much weight pulling it down
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it Newton's second first law

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