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12-foot-long wooden beam is supported on both ends. When a weight load is placed in the center of the beam,it causes the beam to sag. The sag is called deflection. The graph shows the deflection of the beam,in inches, as a function of the weight load, in pounds, placed in the center of the beam. for every 50-pound increase in the weight load, what will be the change in the deflection?

Sagot :

the change in the deflection with every 100 pounds is,

[tex]=\frac{0.5-0}{100-0}[/tex][tex]=\frac{0.5}{100}[/tex]

so for every 50 pounds will be,

[tex]\begin{gathered} =(\frac{\frac{0.5}{100}}{2}) \\ =\frac{0.5}{200} \\ =0.0025 \end{gathered}[/tex]

so for every 50 pound increase in the weight, the change in the deflection is 0.25