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Charges of an electric dipole are `8muC` and `-8muC.` Coordinates of those charges are `(2, -1, 5) and (1, 0, 4)`. If that dipole is placed in a field of intensity `E=0.20hatiV//m`, then determine the torque acting on the dipole.

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`[.26xx10^(-4)N.n]`
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