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Find the value of `a` so that the volume of the parallelepiped formed by vectors ` hat i+a hat j+k , hat j+a hat ka n da hat i+ hat k` becomes minimum.

A

-3

B

3

C

`1//sqrt(3)`

D

`sqrt(3)`

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