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The density of solid ball is to be determined in an experiment the diameter of the ball is measured with a screw gauge, whose pitch is 0.5 mm and there are 50 divisions on the circular scale. The reading on the relative error of 2%, the relative percentage error error in the density is

A

0.009

B

0.024

C

0.031

D

0.042

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