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Consider a white dwarf and a neutron star each of one solar mass. The radius of the white dwarf is same as that of the earth (=6400km) and the radius of the neutron star is 10 km. Determine the densities of the two types of the stars. Take mass of the sun `=2.0xx10^(30)`kg.

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