Kristy Yamaguchi is an olympic gold medalistin figure skating (and dancing with the stars champion) If she has a mass of 42.18 kg and the dimensions of her skates blade are 4.8 mm by 30.48 cm, what pressuredoes she exert on the ice? Assume only one skate is down at a time.

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Kristy Yamaguchi is an olympic gold medalistin figure skating (and dancing with the stars champion) If she has a mass of 42.18 kg and the dimensions of her skates blade are 4.8 mm by 30.48 cm, what pressuredoes she exert on the ice? Assume only one skate is down at a time.

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