A car of weight w rests on a slanted ramp attached to a trailer. Only a cable running from the trailer to the car prevents the car from rolling off the ramp. (The car’s brakes are off and its transmission is in neutral.) Find the tension in the cable and the force that the ramp exerts on the car’s tires.

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A car of weight w rests on a slanted ramp attached to a trailer. Only a cable running from the trailer to the car prevents the
car from rolling off the ramp. (The car’s brakes are off and its transmission is in neutral.) Find the tension in the cable and the force that the ramp exerts on the car’s tires.

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