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Ajay had a 1 cm piece of gum. He put it through repeater machine given below and it came out 1100,000 cm long. What is the missing value?

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Ajay had a 1 cm piece of gum. He put it through repeater machine given below and it came out `1/(100,000)` cm long. What is the missing value?

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Solution

Since, Ajay put a 1 cm piece of gum and came out `1/100000`.

So, it is shrinking machine.

Hence, it is a `(xx 1^1/10)^5` type shrinking machine.

Thus, missing value is 5.

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