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the inner coil goes into the outer coil, in the apparatus you can only see the outer coil because the inner coil is inside

All that was given was this, there is an inner coil and an outer coil. I got the machine picture to make things more clear.

Vs< Vp step down transformer

I deduced that this is a step-up transformer wired backward because of the number of turns in each coil. The inner coil has a less number of terms and by the problem's wording, the inner coil is the primary coil. I'm not sure what would actually happen, a hypothesis (that I am not confident on)...