SOLUTION: Hooke's Law. The distance d when a spring is stretched by a hanging object varies directly as the weight w of the object. If the distance is 35 cm when the weight is 2 ​kg, w

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Question 1041895: Hooke's Law. The distance d when a spring is stretched by a hanging object varies directly as the weight w of the object. If the distance is 35 cm when the weight is 2 ​kg, what is the distance when the weight is 6 ​kg?
write an integer or decimal rounded to three decimal places as​ needed
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The first equation is the actual formula described in the first sentence of the description. The second equation lets you calculate the proportionality or variation constant, k.