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(a) Whi are wide wooden sleepers kept below railway lines?
(b) Whi does a balloon not collapse under atmospheric pressure?

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(a) To reduce pressure on the railway lines and to prevent them from sinking into ground.
(b) Because the pressure of the gas inside the balloon balances the atmospheric pressure.
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