To investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, jose and gina test various objects and record the results. for this investigation, they stand on opposite sides of a large 10-pound wooden box and push against it toward one another. jose pushes with 20 pounds of force and gina pushes with 15 pounds of force. which best describes what will happen?

The wooden box wil move towards Gina.

In fact, Newton's second law states that the resultant of the forces acting on an object is equal to the object's mass times its acceleration:

In this case, the net force acting on the wooden box is different from zero: Jose is pushing with 20 pounds of force towards Gina, and Gina is pushing with 15 pounds of force towards Jose, so there will be a net force of 5 pounds towards Gina, and this will cause the box to accelerate.