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Clockwise moments = 10 × 30 = 300 N cm,
Anticlockwise moments = 10 × ‘x’ = 10 x. N cm.
Using the principle of moments
Anti-clockwise moments = clockwise moments
10 x = 300, hence x = 30 cm.
Mutiso answered the question on October 11, 2018 at 18:52
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