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Given: It is difficult to do sit-ups when your knees are bent than when your legs are stretched out.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Take the pivot at waist height, for a person doing crunches with the legs stretched we have the force of gravity doing torque counterclockwise, while the muscles of the abdomen do torque clockwise if the legs are stretched out the lever arm of the abdomen muscles is greater than lever arm of gravity, so it is easy to counteract the torque made by the force of gravity.

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