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Find the value of a so that the volume of the parallelopiped formed by vectors `hati+ahatj+hatk,hatj+ahatkandahati+hatk` becomes minimum.

A

`-3`

B

3

C

`1//sqrt(3)`

D

`sqrt(3)`

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