Only one of three balls A, B, and C carries a net charge q. The balls are made from conducting material and are identical. One of the uncharged balls can become charged by touching it to the charged ball and then separating the two. This process of touching one ball to another and then separating the two balls can be repeated over and over again, with the result that the three balls can take on a variety of charges. Which one of the following distributions of charges could not possibly be achieved in this fashion, even if the process were repeated a large number of times?

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