Answer
Please see the work below.
Work Step by Step
We know that
$E=mgh$
We plug in the known values to obtain:
$E=(60)(9.8)(1700)$
$E=999600J$
$E=(999600J)(\frac{1Kcal}{4184})$
$E=239Kcal$
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