What is your acceleration at that instant

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Question: Standing still on a bathroom scale, you weigh 980 N. You happen to have the scale with you in an elevator and you find your apparent weight to be 1030 N.

Part A: What is your acceleration at that instant and is it directed upward or downward?

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