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Three charges are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 10 cm. Assume `q_(1)=1 muC,q_(2)=-2 muC and q_(3)=4 muC`. Work done in separating the charges to infinity is

A

`-4.5 J`

B

`4.5 J`

C

45 J

D

None of these

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