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The length of a strip measured with a meter rod is `10.0 cm`. Its width measured with a vernier callipers is `1.00 cm`. The least count of the meter rod is `0.1 cm` and that of vernier callipers is `0.01 cm`. What will be the error in its area?

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`pm 0.2 cm^2`
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