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Which statement is true about newtons first law of motion? 1) according to legend newton formulated the law seeing an apple fall to the floor2) it restated the ideas of aristotle 3) it was an addition to and improvement of galileos observation 4) it was completely invented by newton

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Newton's first law is about inertia, it states that if a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed, it will maintain that state at least an external force was exerted on such object.

An important fact is that this concept was previously introduced by Galileo, the phenomena of inertia belong to him before Newton.

Therefore, the correct answer is 3 because Galileo introduced inertia first from his observations.

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