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← ScienceWhich consequence results when simplified basis functions approximate molecular orbitals?
A)Increased computational efficiency✓
B)Exact orbital descriptions
C)Guaranteed variational collapse
D)Improved energy minimization
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Reduced basis sets yield faster calculations because fewer integrals need evaluation, therefore, computational efficiency increases rather than guaranteeing exact solutions, variational collapse, or improved energy minimization; the trade-off introduces approximation error; Hartree-Fock method.
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