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Given information

We are given that:-

The normal force or the weight experienced in the moving elevator, .

Actual weight of the woman,    

There, = mass of the woman,

= gravitational acceleration. 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

There will be two forces on the woman—her weight, and the normal force of the scales pushing up on her.

A free-body diagram for the woman is shown:-

From Newton’s second law of motion:

  

There, = mass,  =acceleration.

 

 

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