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A weight lies on a rough horizontal surface. It is found that a force F gives it an acceleration of `4ms^(-2)` and when force is doubled the acceleration becomes 4 times, if `g=10ms^(-2)`. What is coefficient of kinetic friction?

A

0.2

B

0.4

C

0.6

D

0.8.

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