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Three spherical cannonballs are placed on a smooth level surface.
A slender, rigid, perfectly straight rod is placed at the top of all three.
The rod is tangent to all three collinear, solid iron, cannonballs.
As depicted, each cannonball is tangent to its neighboring ball.
Cannonball A has a mass of 45 kilograms.
Cannonball C has a mass of 20 kilograms.
Find the mass of cannonball B.
B = ______ kilograms
First correct answer to arrive at [email protected] will win a gift card for Tucker’s Ice Cream of Alameda.
Last week’s winner was John Lovato with Area = 246.399 meters²
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