How Do You Calculate Tension in a Clothesline with a Hanging Mass?

[justking1994]

someone please help i have a test tomorrow!

Homework Statement

A single clothesline is attached to two poles 10.0 m apart. A pulley holding a mass of (|Fg| = 294 N) rolls to the middle of the line and comes to rest there. The middle of the line is 0.40M below each end . Determine the magnitude of the tension in the clothesline.

Homework Equations

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The Attempt at a Solution

 

[lewando]

Hi justking1994, welcome to PF! Per rules, help cannot be provided unless you first show what work you have done. Give the problem a try and we will go from there.