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At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the Iranian athlete Hossein Rezazadeh won the super-heavyweight class gold medal in weightlifting. He lifted 472.5 kg472.5 \mathrm{~kg} (1042 lb) combined in his two best lifts in the competition. Assuming that he lifted the weights a height of 196.7 cm196.7 \mathrm{~cm}, what work did he do?

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Given the following data

m=472.5 kgh=196.7 cm=1.967 m\begin{aligned} m&=472.5\ \mathrm{kg}\\ h&=196.7\ \mathrm{cm}\\ &=1.967\ \mathrm{m}\\ \end{aligned}

our objective is to calculate the work WW done by the weightlifter.

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