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The mass of a body cannot be considered to be concentrated at the centre of mass of the body for the purpose of computing its moment of inertia.
For then the moment of inertia of every body about an axis passing through its centre of mass would be zero.

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First statement is correct because moment of inertia depends on the square of distance from the axis of rotation. Second statement is wrong.
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