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Indian and four American men and their wives are to be seated randomly around a circular table. Then, the conditional probability that the Indian man is seated adjacent to this wife given that each American man is seated adjacent to his wife is `1//2` b. `1//3` c. `2//5` d. `1//5`

A

`(1)/(2)`

B

`(1)/(3)`

C

`(2)/(3)`

D

`(1)/(5)`

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