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Explain why the mechanical advantage of a class II lever is always more than 1.

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In second class lever, the load is situated in between effort and fulcrum. Hence , the effort arm is bigger than the load arm.
Since MA = $fraction numerator e f f o r t space a r m over denominator l o a d space a r m end fraction$
MA is always greater than 1.

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