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Q.

A conducting body 1 has some initial charge Q, and its capacitance is C. There are two other conducting bodies, 2 and 3, having capacitance: C2=2C  and C3  . Bodies 2 & 3 are initially uncharged. Body 2 is touched with body 1. Then, body 2 is removed from body 1 and touched with body 3, and then removed. This process is repeated N times. Then, the charge on body 1 at the end must be

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a

Q/3N

b

Q/3N1

c

Q/N3

d

None 

answer is A.

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When 2 is touched to 1, charge gets shared between them such that both of them acquire same potential 
V=Q2C2=Q1C1
And  Q1+Q2=Q
Q1=(C1C1+C2)Q=Q3
Charge acquired by 2 is  Q2=(C2C1+C2)Q
When 2 is touched to 3, the entire charge of 2 gets transferred to 3. This is the only way they can have same potential equal to zero.
After first set of  operations, body 1 has Q1=Q3  charge and the body 2 has no charge. Working similarly, one can see that the change on the body 1 after second set of operations will be  Q32.
After N operations, charge on the first body will be  Q3N.
 

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