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While measuring acceleration due to gravity by simpe pendulum a student makes a positive error of 1% in the length of the pendulum and a negative error of 3% in the value of the time period. His percentage error in the measurement of the value of g will be -

A

0.02

B

0.04

C

0.07

D

0.1

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