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A faulty barometer shows 72 cm and the air column is 10 cm ,when the true atmospheric pressure is 76 cm of Hg .The barometer reading will be when the lenght of the air column is 5 cm (in cm of Hg) A) 50 B) 68 C)77 D)66.7

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