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Why can't speed ratio ever equal mechanical advantage?

Why can't speed ratio ever equal mechanical advantage?-example-1
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Efficiency of a simple machine is the ratio of mechanical advantage and speed ratio.

If mechanical advantage = speed ratio then efficiency = 1
Which is impossible for a practical machine due to presence of frictional force which wastes some energy and thus lowers the output
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