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A passenger sits in a seat of a spinning merry-go-round. The person is 15 meters from...

A passenger sits in a seat of a spinning merry-go-round. The person is 15 meters from the merry-go-round’s center going at a speed of 5 m/s. What is the passenger’s centripetal acceleration?

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