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A classmate explains that if your bathroom scale reads 150 pounds when you stand on it a...

A classmate explains that if your bathroom scale reads 150 pounds when you stand on it at sea level, it will read only 75 pounds on the top of an 18,000-foot mountain, where atmospheric pressure is reduced by one-half. What is wrong with your classmate’s reasoning? Would you expect the scale reading to be reduced at all as a result of the decrease in atmospheric pressure?

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