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A woman weighing 50 kgf stands on a weighing machine placed in lift. What will be the reading of the machine, when the lift is (i) moving upwards with a uniform velocity of `5ms^(-1)` and (ii) moving downwards with a uniform acceleration of `1ms^(-2)` ? Take g = 10 `ms^(-2)`.

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