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A mixture of milk and water weighs 96 liters, where the quantity of milk is 33⅓% of the quantity of water. How much milk needs to be added so that the quantity of water in the new mixture becomes 40% of the total volume of the resulting mixture?

A 72 litres

B 64 litres

C 84 litres

D 56 litres

E None of these

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