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To pull a car from a ditch, the driver ties one end of a rope to the car and the other to a tree 12.5 m away. Driver then pulls sideways from the midpoint of the rope with a 475 N force.

How much force exterted on the car when the rope has been pulled 75 cm to one side?

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