When a 125-Kg Piece of Equipment Is Hung from a Steel

Multiple Choice

When a 125-kg piece of equipment is hung from a steel wire of diameter 6.00 mm, it stretches the wire by 4.00 mm. If instead the wire had a diameter of 3.00 mm, but all else were the same, by what distance would the same equipment stretch the wire?

A) 4.00 mm
B) 2.00 mm
C) 1.00 mm
D) 16.0 mm
E) 8.00 mm