SOLUTION: A seesaw can balance with more than one weight on each side as long as the sum of the products of the weights one side and their distances from the fulcrum is equal to the sum of t
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Question 1081161: A seesaw can balance with more than one weight on each side as long as the sum of the products of the weights one side and their distances from the fulcrum is equal to the sum of the products of the weights on the other side and their distances from the fulcrum.
Can you figure out how much the duck and the rabbit on this seesaw weigh from the following clues?
The sum of the four weight 40 pounds.
The owl weighs 3 pounds.
The chicken weighs 5 pounds.
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