Calculating Force and Power for Pushing Pallets

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Push the pallet!

Hi,
I'm stucked with this: a guy push the pallet with the hand pallet forklift over the 5 degrees slope, 2m long.. the pallet is 400kg, what is the force he needs? I don't have any friction factor for wheels, is there any general factor accurate enough? How to include acceleration prior the slope? How to calculate power? HELP:)
 
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You are probably supposed to ignore friction.
Draw a diagram of the pallet on the slope
Find the components of the weight along the slope ( hint: should this be a large or small part of the weight)