Li and Raj are playing football. They take turns trying to run past each other with the football. Li weighs 125 pound and Raj weighs 175 pounds. Li discovers that if he changes direction quickly when running, he can always dodge out of the way before Raj can tackle him.

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Li and Raj are playing football. They take turns trying to run past each other with the football. Li weighs 125 pound and Raj weighs 175 pounds. Li discovers that if he changes direction quickly when running, he can always dodge out of the way before Raj can tackle him.

Why is Li able to avoid Raj’s tackle? Choose the best description.

A) Raj has more mass and therefore more inertia, so he can change his motion more easily than Li.

B) Raj has more mass and therefore less inertia, so he can change his motion more easily than Li.

C) Li has less mass and therefore more inertia, so he can change his motion more easily than Raj.

D) Li has less mass and therefore less inertia, so he can change his motion more easily than Raj.

Option D - Li has less mass and therefore less inertia, so he can change his motion more easily than Raj.

Explanation:

From Newton's first law of motion which is known as law of inertia, an object will remain at rest or continue in constant motion unless an external force acts upon it. This means that Inertia is simply the resistance of an object to any change in its state of rest or motion.

This means that the larger the mass of the object, the more resistance the object will have from an external force. Similarly, the smaller the object, the less resistance it will have from an external force.

Therefore, we can see that larger mass means larger resistance and in turn larger inertia while smaller mass denotes smaller resistance and in turn smaller inertia.

Now, from the question,Li weighs 125 pound and Raj weighs 175 pounds. So, Li has lesser mass than Raj, and so he also has less inertia. Thus, he can change his motion more easily than Raj due to that.

e) none of the above answers are correct