Two persons are holding a rope of negligible mass horizontally. A 20 kg mass is attached to the rope at the midpoint; as a result the rope deviates from the horizontal direction. The tension required to completely straighten the rope is (g= 10m/s2)

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Q: 10 (CDS-II/2018)
Two persons are holding a rope of negligible mass horizontally. A 20 kg mass is attached to the rope at the midpoint; as a result the rope deviates from the horizontal direction. The tension required to completely straighten the rope is (g= 10m/s2)

question_subject: 

Logic/Reasoning

question_exam: 

CDS-II

stats: 

0,2,13,10,3,0,2

keywords: 

{'rope': [0, 0, 1, 1], 'tension': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'kg mass': [0, 0, 1, 1], 'negligible mass': [0, 0, 0, 1], '10m': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'persons': [4, 4, 9, 10], 'horizontal direction': [0, 0, 2, 2]}