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Given information

The two stars have equal mass.
The distance between the two stars  
Period of each star    

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

We have time of revolution as

 

From this we can find the speed of revolution

 

Where,

is speed of revolution

is diameter of the orbit

is the time of revolution

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