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If a person standing at the first-floor entrance to the Sears Tower (recently renamedWil...

If a person standing at the first-floor entrance to the Sears Tower (recently renamedWillis Tower) in Chicago weighs exactly 150 lb, determine the weight while he or she is standing on top of the building, which is 1450 ft above the first-floor entrance. How high would the top of the building need to be for the person’s weight to be 99% of its value at the first-floor entrance?

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