In your office, you have a rolling chair and a rolling filing cabinet. The chair weighs 10 pounds, and the filing cabinet weighs 50 pounds (it's partly full). If you push both of them away with about the same strength
A. the chair will accelerate about 5 times as much as the cabinet.
B. the cabinet will accelerate about 25 times as much as the chair.
C. the chair will accelerate about 25 times as much as the cabinet.
D. the cabinet will accelerate about 5 times as much as the chair.
E. both will accelerate about the same.
Answer: A
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