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Which is the best example of increasing entropy? A pile of library books is placed in a neat stack on a shelf. A cyclist pedals harder while riding uphill. A deserted field becomes overgrown with weeds. A dining room is cleaned to remove dust.

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Answer is A

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Answer: A deserted field becomes overgrown with weeds

Step-by-step explanation: Entropy is the measure of randomness or disorder of a system.

If a system moves from an ordered arrangement to a disordered arrangement, the entropy is said to increase and vice versa.

Energy must be used to increase the entropy of the system and thus a deserted field becomes overgrown with weeds , it uses energy and thus the randomness or entropy also increases.

A pile of library books is placed in a neat stack on a shelf has least disorder or least entropy.

A cyclist pedals harder while riding uphill and thus energy is supplied and the entropy decreases.

A deserted field becomes overgrown with weeds and thus the entropy of the field increases.

A dining room is cleaned to remove dust and thus the disorder is decreasing.

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