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Weight is a scalar quantity.

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Young's modulus of elasticity

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Stress

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Solution

The correct option is B Stress
Weight is measurement of the gravitational force applied on the body. As we know that a force has magnitude as well as direction and we call such a quantity as a vector quantity, hence we can say that weight is a vector quantity.

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