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Assertion: The length of the day is slow...

Assertion: The length of the day is slowly increasing.
Reason: The dominant effect causing a slowdown in the rotation of the earth is the gravitational pull of other planets in the solar system.

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If both assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

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If both assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

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If assertion is true but reason is false

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If both assertion and reason are false.

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D
Length of the day depends upon the angular speed of earth about it's own axis, the earth in not slowing down due to conservation of angular momentum.
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