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Choose the correct alternative :- Acceleration due to gravity `increases//decreases` with increasing depth (assume the earth to be a sphere of uniform density).

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As `g_(d)=g (1- (d)/(R ))`. Therefore `g_(d)` decreases with increase in depth
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