Question

A woman weighs 100 kg and wants to know the force that the heels of her different shoes put on the new carpet by standing on one foot. The different shoes, A, B, C, D have heels of area 1cm, 4cm, 8cm and 64cm.

Which heel applies greater force to the carpet?


Answer: ALL EQUAL
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Answer: ALL EQUAL

Answer 1

Shoe D.

The heel of shoe D applies the greatest force to the carpet because it has the largest surface area in contact with it, and thus the largest force is distributed over that larger area.