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According to one of the Kepler's laws of planetary motion :

(a) r2 ∝ T3
(b) r ∝ T2
(c) r3 ∝ T2
(d) r3 1T2

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(c) r3 ∝ T2
According to Kepler’s third law of planetary motion, the cube of mean distance of a planet from the sun is directly proportional to the square of time it takes to move around the sun.

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