A nickel is placed on a table. The number of nickels which can be placed around it, each tangent to it and to two others is:
<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(A)</span>4<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(B)</span>5<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(C)</span>6<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(D)</span>8<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(E)</span>12