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Atmospheric pressure decreases with increment in height.
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Answer:

pressure=height × density×acc due to gravity

so

pressire is directly proportional to height hence it decreses with decrease in height

here air column height is measured upside down so decreases witn increment

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Answer:

this is because as the altitude increases the number of air molecules decreases

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