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Coulomb's law states that the electric force becomes weaker with increasing distance. Suppose that instead, the electric force between two charged particles were independent of distance. In this case, would a neutral insulator still be attracted towards the comb.

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The charged body attracts the natural body because attraction (due to the distance factor) is more than the repulsion.
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