If given some weights and asked to balance a scale by hooking the weights onto the scale's arms, how will the most cognitively advanced adolescents determine where to place the weights to balance the scale? How about preadolescents?
What will be an ideal response?
The teenager should be able to make systematic calculations based on multiplying
the weight times the distance from center. Younger children will use trial and error.
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