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Given information

Given:

Mass of the man,  

Radius of the rod,  

Original length of the rod  

Distance between iron atoms in steel,

 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The force acting on the rod is because of the weight of the man.

Therefore, use the relation

, where F is the force acting on the rod  is the cross-sectional area of the rod, E is the Young’s modulus of steel and   is the change in length of the rod

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