A ladder, 5 meters long, standing on a horizontal floor, leans against a vertical wall. If the top of the ladder slides downwards at the rate of 10 cm/sec, then the rate at which the angle between the floor and the ladder is decreasing when the lower end of the ladder is 2 meters from the wall is:

(A)  1/10 radian/sec

(B)  1/20 radian/sec

(C) 20 radian/sec

(D) 10 radian/sec

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