A fruit-seller buys some oranges and by selling $40 \%$ of them he fealises the cost price of all the oranges. As the oranges being to grow over-ripe, he reduces the price and sells $80 \%$ of the remaining oranges at half the previous rate of profit. The rest of the oranges being rotten are thrown away. The overall percentage of profit is

  • A

    $80$

  • B

    $84$

  • C

    $94$

  • D

    $96$

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