The apparatus must be Positively Charged.
Charge interaction:
1. opposite charge objects attract each other
2. like charge object repel each other
3. neutral object with any charges will attract each other.
So, In the question it said that after rubbing on apparatus pith ball
become negative charge which means it has gained the electron.
Thus, the apparatus must have lose electron and would be
positively charged.
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