Hint: As the balls are identical their capacitance would be same but potentials are different. Therefore transfer of charge took place after connecting them by wire until both balls gain equal amount of charge.
Solution:
Step-1: Calculate Coulomb force before connecting wire
Let $$\mathrm{r}$$ be the distance between charges and $$\mathrm{k}=$$ Coulomb constant Magnitude of Coulomb force between charge $$+2 Q$$ and $$-Q$$ is
$$\therefore \quad \mathrm{F}=\left|\frac{k \times(+2 Q) \times(-Q)}{r^{2}}\right|$$
$$\Rightarrow F=\frac{2 k Q^{2}}{r^{2}}$$
Step-2: Coulomb force after connecting the wire
After connecting the balls by wire both balls will have same charge
Hence charge of each ball $$=\frac{\text { net charge }}{\text { number of charge }}$$
$$=\frac{(+2 Q)+(-Q)}{2}$$
$$=\frac{Q}{2}$$
Now magnitude of Coulomb force between the charges,
$$F^{\prime}=\left|\frac{k \times \frac{Q}{2} \times \frac{Q}{2}}{r^{2}}\right|=\frac{k Q^{2}}{4 r^{2}}$$
$$\therefore \quad \frac{F^{\prime}}{F}=\frac{\frac{k Q^{2}}{4 r^{2}}}{\frac{2 k Q^{2}}{r^{2}}}=\frac{1}{8}$$
$$\Rightarrow \quad F^{\prime}=\frac{F}{8}$$
$$\therefore$$ Answer is option $$D$$