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Explain why snow shoes stop you from sinking into snow?

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Snow shoes stop from sinking into snow because the snow shoes are very large.They have large surface area. Since pressure and surface area are inversely related to each other. So when the surface area is large than the pressure exerted by the shoes will be less on ground. Thus due to this person will not sink into snow.

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