Florence, who weighs 120 lb, stands on a bathroom scale in an elevator. What will she see the scale read when the elevator is accelerating upward at 2.0 m/s2?

A) 86 lb
B) 1.4 × 102 lb
C) 96 lb
D) 1.2 × 102 lb
E) 1.6 × 102 lb


B

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