how are the weight on the first floor of a skyscraper able to hold the weight of over a 100 floors?
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A building is a lot like a tree. The lower branches of a tree don’t support the upper ones, the trunk does that. In a building instead of a trunk you have one or more concrete and steel columns surrounded by a steel frame. The floors are attached to those like branches on a tree. So the weight of the building is not supported by the floors, but by an combination of concrete and steel.
You could remove the exterior and interior walls of most skyscrapers and they would stay up just fine.
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