A hot air balloon is carrying some passengers, and a few sandbags of mass $1 kg$ each so that its total mass is $480 kg$. Its effective volume giving the balloon its buoyancy is $V$. The balloon is floating at an equilibrium height of $100 m$. When $N$ number of sandbags are thrown out, the balloon rises to a new equilibrium height close to $150 m$ with its volume $V$ remaining unchanged. If the variation of the density of air with height $h$ from the ground is $\rho(h)=\rho_0 e^{-\frac{h}{h_0}}$, where $\rho_0=1.25 kg m ^{-3}$ and $h _0=6000 m$, the value of $N$ is. . . . . 
  • A$3$
  • B$4$
  • C$5$
  • D$6$
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