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Swimming is possible due to

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Galileo’s law of inertia
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Newton’s first law of motion
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Newton’s second law of motion
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Newton’s third law of motion
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Solution

The correct option is D Newton’s third law of motion
While swimming, swimmers push water backward with force and in return the water pushes swimmer forward with the same amount of force, which is an example of action-reaction pairs in third law.

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