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Given information

We are given that:-

Mass of boy .  

Mass of boy

Mass of girl .  

 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

From the free-body diagram, the conditions of equilibrium are used to find the location of the girl (mass ).

Calculate torques about the center of the seesaw, and take counterclockwise torques to be positive. The upward force of the fulcrum on the seesaw causes no torque about the center. 

  

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