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Tika Chand has a weighing balance in which there is a technical fault. The right pan of his balance measures always 200 g more than its left pan. Tika Chand as usual misutilise this balance in his business. While purchasing the articles he puts goods in the left pan and weight in the right pan while selling he reverse the order Le,goods in the right pan and weight in the left pan. He uses only 2 kg weight for the measurement and to measure 2n kg weight he measures n times by 2-2 kg but he sells goods at cost price. What is his profit percentage ?

A

`20%`

B

`22(2)/9%`

C

`18(2)/11%`

D

none of these

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