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It is found that if a neutron suffers an elastic collinear collision with deuterium at rest, fractional loss of its energy is `p_(d)`, while for its similar collision with carbon nucleus at rest, fractional loss of energy is `p_(c )`. The values of `p_(d)` and `p_(c )` are respectively :

A

(0,1)

B

(.89,.28)

C

(.28,.89)

D

(0,0)

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