A bowling ball has a mass of 7.2 kg and a weight of 70.6 N. It moves down the bowling alley at 1 m/s and strikes a pin with a force of 15.0 N. What is the force that the pin exerts on the bowling ball?

By Newton’s third law, when the bowling ball exerts a force on the pin, the pin exerts an equal-magnitude force in the opposite direction on the ball. The ball strikes the pin with a force of 15.0 N, so the pin exerts 15.0 N on the ball. The correct choice is 15.0 N.

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