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A 18.9 g wire of length 88.6 cm is suspended by a pair of flexible leads in a uniform magnetic field of magnitude 0.484 T (see the figure). What is the (a) magnitude and (b) direction (left or right) of the current required to remove the tension in the supporting leads?

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