Figured it out. It's just m*g = 431.2N. The Tension of the rope to the ceiling and the pulling force cancel out b/c its in equilibrium, so you just have the tension force going upward and mg going down so mg - T = 0, mg = T.
This is for a graded online homework due at 11. I got everything else on it right, but this is giving me trouble for some reason. We get to resubmit answers once, and my first answer of 215.6N was wrong
Question: The pulley system in the figure is used to lift a crate of mass m = 44 kg. Note...