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Calculate the packing fraction of `alpha`-particle from the following data :
Mass of helium nucleus =4.0028 amu
Mass of free proton =1.00758 amu
Mass of free neutron =1.00897 amu

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Packing fraction `=("mass defect " Deltam)/("total number of nucleons A" )`
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