Solution

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At every regular point of the double circular cone, its normal is perpendicular to by part (a). Therefore the integrand of the flux integral vanishes pointwise:
The vertex, if included, is a single point of zero surface area and does not alter the surface integral. The answer is independent of both the subset and its orientation. Tangency, rather than a cancellation between different parts of the surface, explains the zero flux.

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