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Radius of a Curve

A car with a mass of 1,200 kilograms is moving around a circular curve at a uniform velocity of 20 meters per second, the centripetal force on the car is 6,000 newtons. What is radius of the curve?

a. 160 meters b. 80 meters  c. 32 meters or d. 16 meters?


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