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(15 Points) You are asked to design a safe bungee cord experience for your10.-family so you perform the necessary tests for the event. After careful measurements and tests, the bungee

cord you designed has a length of 30 meters and, when stretched a distance x, it exerts a restoring force of magnitude kx. Your father-in-law (mass 95.0 kg)stands on a platform 45.0 m above the ground, and one end of the cord is tied securely to his ankle and the other end to the platform. You have promised him that when he steps off the platform he will fall a maximum distance of only 41.0 m before the cord stops him. You had several bungee cords to select from, and you tested them by stretching them out, tying one end to a tree, and pulling on the other end with a force of 380.0 N.When you do this, what distance will the bungee cord that you should select have stretched?

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