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The number of common tangents that can be drawn to the circles `x^(2)+y^(2)-4x+6y+8=0, x^(2)+y^(2)-10x-6y+14=0`

A

touch internally

B

touch externally

C

intersecting at two points

D

are such that one completely lies outside the other

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