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A moving particle of mass m makes a head-on perfectly inelastic collision with a particle of mas 2m which is initially at rest. Find the fractional loss in energy of the colliding partic le after collision.

A

`1//3`

B

`1//9`

C

`8//9`

D

`2//3`

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