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An elevator in a building is designed to carry a load of 5000 kg throgh 10 floors . If height of each floor is 5 cm on an average and it takes 8 seconds to climb 10 floors , calculate the horse power of the lift .

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To solve the problem of calculating the horsepower of the elevator, we will follow these steps: ### Step 1: Calculate the total height the elevator needs to lift the load. The height of each floor is given as 5 meters, and there are 10 floors. \[ \text{Total height} = \text{Height of each floor} \times \text{Number of floors} = 5 \, \text{m} \times 10 = 50 \, \text{m} \] ...
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