Where Should the Normal Reaction Be in a Static Equilibrium Problem?

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I am working on this word problem, you can see from my attachment..
I want to make sure my body diagram is correct?
 

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I think that the normal reaction N would be at the pivot.

The rest of the diagram is correct.
 

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