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A man standing on an international space station, which is orbiting earth at an altitude `520 km` with a constant speed `7.6 km//s`. If the man's weight is `50 kg`, there acceleration due to gravity is (radius of earth is `6400 km` and value of `g` on earth is `9.8 m//s^(2))`.

A

`7.6km/s^2`

B

`7.6m/s^2`

C

`8.4m/s^2`

D

`10m/s^2`

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