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A boy is standing on top of a tower of height 85 m and throws a ball in the vertically upward direction with a certain speed. If `5.25` seconds later he hears the ball hitting the ground, then the speed with which the boy threw the ball is (take `g = 10 m/s^(2)`, speed of sound in air = 340 m/s)

A

6 m/s

B

8 m/s

C

10 m/s

D

12 m/s

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