tension of a rope

Question

A hungry bear weighs 700 N walks to a basket of candy that is located in
end of a beam . The beam is uniform and weighs 200N , with a length of 6.0 m . The beam is supported
by a cord forming an angle of 60 ° . The basket weighs 80 N. When the bear is within 1.2 m
determine the tension of the rope.

Comments

Hi Devin,

this question is not graduate-level and therefore off-topic for PhysicsOverflow, voting to close.

You might try to ask it in the appropriate subsection of PhysicsForums, but even there it is probably needed that you submit your own thoughts about the problem together with the question.