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A uniform disc rotating freely about a vertical axis makes 90 revolutions per minute. A small piece of wax of mass m gram falls vertically on the disc and sticks to it at a distance of r cm from the axis. If the number of rotations per minute reduces to 60, find the moment of inertia of the disc.

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