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Krishna purchased 20 pencils for his two sons Akhil and Nikhil. Akhil took two fifth of the total number of these penscils and Nikhil took the remining pencils. Find the number of pencils taken by Nikhil.

A

8

B

12

C

6

D

`14`

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