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A simple pendulum is being used to determine the value of gravitational acceleration g at a certain place. The length of the pendulum is 25.0 cm and a stop watch with 1 s resolution measures the time taken for 40 oscillations to be 50 s. The accuracy in g is:

A

`3.40%`

B

`4.40%`

C

`5.40%`

D

`2.40%`

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