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📅 NSB 2015🎓 HS🔄 Round 5#️⃣ Q10❓ TOSS-UP📝 Multiple Choice

A family sits on an 8 meter long see-saw. The daughter, massing 20 kilograms, sits at the left end of the see-saw, and the father, massing 80 kilograms, sits at the middle of the right portion of the see-saw. Where must the mother, massing 60 kilograms, sit in order to make the see-saw in static equilibrium and level with the ground?

W) 1 meter left of the pivot
X) 1 meter right of the pivot
Y) 4/3 meter left of the pivot
Z) 4/3 meter right of the pivot
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