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Roopa observed that her mother is using a cutting plier instead of fire tongs to hold a hot container and she prevented her from doing so. Why?

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Because, to hold hot containers speed multipliers are needed but not force multiplier. Here, fire tongs is a speed multiplier but cutting plier is a force multiplier.
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