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Read each statement below acrefully and state , with reasons and examples , if it is true or false : A scalar quantity is one that
(a) is conserved in a process
(b) can never take negative values
(c ) must be dimensionless
(d) does not very from one point to another in space
( e) has the same value for observers with different orientations of axes.

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