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The driver of a car made an emergency stop on a straight horizontal road. The wheels locked and the car skidded to a stop. The marks made by the rubber tires on the dry asphalt are 16 meters long, and the cars mass is 1200 kilograms.

1. Determine the weight of the car.

2. Calculate the magnitude of the frictional force the road applied to the car in stopping it.