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Two vibrating strings ' A ' and ' B ' produce beats of frequency 8 Hz. The beat frequency is found to reduce to 4 Hz if the tension in the string 'A' is slightly reduced. If the original frequency of A is 320 Hz, then the frequency of B ' is

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