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Two polaroids are oriented with their planes perpendicular to incident light and transmission axis making an angle of `30^(@)` with each other. What fraction of incident unpolarised light transmitted?

A

`57.5 %`

B

`17.5 %`

C

`27.5 %`

D

`37.5 %`

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