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Given information

Given cantor set is 

                     

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
First time, we will remove   of the line.
In the second removal, we will remove   of the two lines remaining from the first time i.e
 
 
In the third removal, we will remove    of the four lines remaining from the second time i.e
 
 
In the kth removal we will remove   of the  lines remaining from the th time i.e
 
 
 
From this it follows that
  
  removed length
                       
 
This is s geometric series with  , and   since   , it's corvergent and  we can compute its sum, as follows
 
 

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