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A spring balance is graduated on a sea level . If a body is weighed at consecutively increasing heights from the earths surface,the weight indicated by the balance will

A)go on increase continously

B)go on decreasing continously

C) remain the same

D)first increase and then decrease

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Solution

It will go on decreasing
because gravitational force goes on decreasing.

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