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A fruit merchant bought some bananas. One fourth of them got spoiled. He sold another one-fourth of them at 24% loss and the remaining at 18% profit. Find his overall loss percentage.

A

`19 %`

B

`22 %`

C

`30 %`

D

`16 %`

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