SOLUTION: The crushing load of a square wooden post varies directly as the fourth power of it's thickness and indirectly as the square of it's length. A post 10 cm thick and 4m high is crush

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Question 195770: The crushing load of a square wooden post varies directly as the fourth power of it's thickness and indirectly as the square of it's length. A post 10 cm thick and 4m high is crushed by a load of 22.5 tons. What is the crushing load on a
Post 5 cm thick and 3 m long
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The crushing load of a square wooden post varies directly as the fourth power of it's thickness and indirectly as the square of it's length.
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C = k[t^4/L^2
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Find "k" using the following information:
A post 10 cm thick and 4m high is crushed by a load of 22.5 tons.
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Comment: You have thicknes in cetimeters and length in meters but
have not stated whether they need to be expressed in the same unit.
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Cheers,
Stan H.

What is the crushing load on a
Post 5 cm thick and 3 m long