The length of a spring becomes 10 cm on suspending a mass of 20 kg in a vertical plane and 12 cm on suspending 32 kg. What should be the weight suspended from it so as to cause the length to be 15 cm 
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Let normal length of a spring is 
(i)
and 
(ii)
cm
then from 
(ii)
then, 
kg
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