The energy of a system as a function of time $t$ is given as $E(t)=A^2 \exp (-\alpha t)$, where $\alpha=0.2 s ^{-1}$. The measurement of $A$ has an error of $1.25 \%$. If the error in the measurement of time is $1.50 \%$, the percentage error in the value of $E(t)$ at $t=5 s$ is
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