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Three circles touch one-another externally. The tangents at their point of contact meet at a point whose distance from a point contact is 4. Then, the ratio of the product of the radii of the sum of the radii of circles is

A

`16:1`

B

`1:16`

C

`8:1`

D

None of these

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