Why is it easy to drag a mat over the floor when no weight is kept over it?

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Solution

Due to weight on the mat normal reaction increases so friction also increases which opposes the relative motion of mat over surface of floor so we feel difficulties to drag mat with weight over it.
Friction is directly proportional to normal reaction.

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