Question

You and a friend are moving a very heavy and irregular piece of furniture across a room. You arelifting it to prevent it from scratching your wooden floor. Your friend lets you pick where you aregoing to hold it and your friend will hold it at the other end (or some other place you tell yourfriend to hold it). To make it easier on yourself, you would:A.Hold the end closer to the center of mass (your friend holds the other end).B.Hold the end farther from the center of mass (your friend holds the other end).C.Hold it at the center of mass and have your friend hold it from one of the other ends.D.It doesn't matter where you pick - you'll both have to exert the same force no

Answer 1

B.

Explanation: the irregular furniture has weight, and to make it easier to carry, it is better to hold the end farther away from the center of the mass while the other person holds the other end to maintain a state of equilibrium in weight.