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A man of height 'h' is walking away from a street lamp with a constant speed 'v'. The height of the street lamp is 3h. The rate at which the length of the man's shadow is increasing when he is at a distance 10 h from the base of the street lamp is

A

v/2

B

v/3

C

2v

D

v/6

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