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A body is dropped from the top of a tower and it covers a 80 m distance in last two seconds of its journey. Find out `[g=10 ms^(-2)]`
(i) height of the tower
(ii) time taken by body to reach the ground
(iii) the velocity of body when it hits the ground

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The correct Answer is:
(i) 125 m
(ii) 5 sec
(iii) `50 m//s`
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