If the volume of the parallelepiped formed by the vectors $\hat{i} + \lambda \hat{j} + \hat{k}$,$\hat{j} + \lambda \hat{k}$ and $\lambda \hat{i} + \hat{k}$ is minimum,then $\lambda$ is equal to

  • A
    $\sqrt{3}$
  • B
    $\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$
  • C
    $-\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$
  • D
    None of these

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