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A 500-kg concrete block 95 cm longcm wide and cm high. It can exert three different pressures on a horizontal surface depending on which faceit rests on the highest pressure is

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Pressure is force per unit area. If the block is sitting at rest on the surface, it applies a pressure of mg/A, where mg is the block's weight and A is the area of the face that makes contact with the surface.

The smaller the value of A, the larger the pressure. So the highest pressure the block can exert is achieved when it's resting on the face with the smallest dimensions.

If the block is a cube with side length 95 cm, then the pressure exerted by each face is the same.

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