A rope thrown over a pulley has a ladder with a man of mass m on one of its ends and a counter balancing mass M on its other end. The man climbs with velocity $V_r$ relative to the ladder. Ignoring the masses of the pulley as well as the friction on the pulley axis, the velocity of the centre of mass of this system is

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\[\begin {array} {1 1} (a)\;\frac{m}{M}Vr & \quad (b)\;\frac{m}{2M}Vr \\ (c)\;\frac{M}{m}V_r & \quad  (d)\;\frac{2M}{m}Vr \end {array}\]