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Your shopping cart has a mass of 65 kilograms. In order to accelerate the shopping cart down an aisle at 0.3 m/sec2, what force would you need to use or apply to the cart?

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Assuming there is no friction between the floor and the shopping cart we can solve for the force by using F=m*a. With this F=65*(.3) which gives is the force to be 19.5N
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