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Homework Statement


A person whose mass is 70 kg runs up a flight of stairs through a vertical height of 6 m. If she uses her food with an efficiency of 10%, how many food calories does she have to consume to do this work?

Homework Equations



P.E=mgh=W

(Output/input)*100 = Efficiency

The Attempt at a Solution



I assumed that mgh=w because there is not kinetic energy at the top, so I just solved for mgh and got 4116J. I converted that into calories and found the input using the formula above, an I got ~9830 cals. When I looked at the answer key it said 9.9 cals( not Kcals)
 
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