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The eccentricity of an ellipse having centre at the origin, axes along the co-ordinate axes and passing through the points `(4, -1)` and `(-2, 2)` is:

A

`1/2`

B

`2/sqrt5`

C

`sqrt3/2`

D

`sqrt3/4`

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