Separation of the plates is doubled and wax is inserted

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An air-filled parallel-plate capacitor has a capacitance of 1.5 pF. The separation of the plates is doubled and wax is inserted between them. The new capacitance is 3.7 pF. Find the dielectric constant of the wax.

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