Answer: a Had twice as much mass
Explanation:
The data that we have is:
"The force of gravity pulls down on your school with a total force of 400,000 newtons. "
First, remember that, by the second Newton's law that:
F = a*m
F = force
a = acceleration
m = mass
In the case of the gravitational force, the gravitational acceleration is a constant: a = 9.8m/s^2
Then, if we want to have twice as much force the only thing that we can change in the equation is the mass:
Then if the initial force is written as:
F = a*m
twice as much that force is written as:
2*F = a*x
x is a variable that represents the new mass.
We know that F = a*m
2*F = 2*a*m
2*a*m = a*x
2*m = x
Then, if we want to have twice as much force, we should have twice as much mass.
