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A roll of aluminum foil from the grocery store is 12 inches wide by 75 feet long (if you unroll it). If the foil is 0.006 inches thick, and the specific weight of aluminum is 2,880 N/m3, how much does the roll of aluminum foil weigh?
0.036 N 4,900 N 142,884 N 28.5 N
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