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The edges of a parallelopiped are of unit length and are parallel to non-coplanar unit vectors `hat(a), hat(b), hat(c)` such that `hat(a)*hat(b)=hat(b)*hat(c)=hat(c)*hat(a)=(1)/(2).` Then, the volume of the parallelopiped is

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`1//sqrt(2)`

B

`1//2sqrt(2)`

C

`sqrt(3)//2`

D

`1//sqrt(3)`

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