While measuring the acceleration due to gravity by a simple 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 time period. His percentage error in the measurement of $g$ by the relation $g = 4{\pi ^2}(l/T^2)$ will be ........ $\%$

  • A
    $2$
  • B
    $4$
  • C
    $7$
  • D
    $10$

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