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Practice problem

Integrating to Find Work

By Alex Federspiel

Makenna is stretching a spring from 5 m to 8 m and notices it requires 12 J of work. She then stretches the spring three more meters, and it requires an additional 20 J of work. How long was the spring before she started stretching it?

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