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A pulley system is used to lift a 100kg box using a 100N force what is the mechanical advantage

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For a single pulley system, to find the mechanical advantage you will simply divide the total force used by the pulley system (100kg) and how much the other force is 100N.

Therefore, the mechanical advantage would be 1.

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