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Given information
The three masses are
and
Refernece mass-
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The center of mass for a three-particle system is calculated by multiplying the mass of a particle by its distance from some reference point plus the mass of a particle by its distance from that same reference point plus the mass of a particle by its distance from that same reference point plus the mass of a particle by its distance from that same reference point.
Here we have the reference point as
So the centre of mass will be
where
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