In a 4 – bar linkage, if the lengths of shortest, longest and the other two links are denoted by s, l, p and q, then it would result in Grashof’s linkage provided that
(a) l + p < s + q
(b) l + s < p + q
(c) l + p = s + q
(d) none of the mentioned
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Query is from Simple Mechanisms in section Simple Mechanisms of Machine Kinematics