You place a box on a smooth and evenly-sanded wooden board. Raise one end of the board so that the angle increases. Eventually, the box starts to slide along the board. If you maintain this angle of the board, the box

1.will move at constant speed along the ramp.
2.will do none of these.
3.will slow down and stop along the ramp.
4.will speed up along the ramp.


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