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The tangent of angle between the lines whose intercepts on the axes are `a,-b` and `b,-a` respectively, is

A

`(a^(2)-b^(2))/(a b)`

B

`(b^(2)-a^(2))/(2)`

C

`(b^(2)-a^(2))/(2 a b)`

D

none of thesc

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