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While rollerblading through your neighborhood, you suddenly lose control and begin coasting down a hill, unable to stop. Fortunately, you see a neighbor moving a mattress into their house and decide that colliding with the mattress would be far less painful than the alternatives. Your plan works to perfection and you are slowed gently over the course of 1.4 seconds. Assuming your mass is 80 kg and your initial velocity was 10 m/s, find the average force applied on your body by the mattress (in N).
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