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A person was asked to find `7/9` of a fraction. He made a mistake of dividing the fraction by `7/9` and got an answer which exceeded the correct answer by `8/21` Then the correct answer is

A

(3/7)

B

(7/12)

C

(2/21)

D

(1/3)

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