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A person weight 200 pounds on Earth. Giv...

A person weight 200 pounds on Earth. Given that a pound is a unit of weight equal to 4.45 N, what is this person's mass ?

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This person's weight in newtons is (200 lb) `(4.45 N//lb)=890 N`, so his mass is `m=F_(w)//g=(890 N)(10 m//s^(2))=89 kg`.
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