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Adding surfactants in non polar solvent, the micelles structure will look like
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
A surfactant molecule consists of two parts:
The arrangement of surfactant molecules depends on the nature of the solvent.
In a polar solvent such as water, the polar heads interact with the solvent, while the non-polar tails remain away from it. Hence, the tails aggregate towards the center, forming normal micelles.
In a non-polar solvent, the arrangement is reversed. The non-polar tails interact readily with the non-polar solvent and point outward, whereas the polar heads avoid contact with the solvent and cluster together at the center.
Such an arrangement is called a reverse micelle.
Since the question involves a non-polar solvent, the surfactant molecules will form reverse micelles with:
Among the given diagrams, only diagram (a) represents this arrangement.
Hence, the correct answer is
$$\boxed{\text{Diagram (a)}}$$
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