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Development Associates (DA) agrees to buy five acres of land from Eastside Properties for $15,000. Eastside sells the acreage to Fealty Realty, and fails to go through with DA's deal on the agreed date, when the market price of the land is $17,000. DA may recovera. $17,000.
b. $15,000.
c. $2,000.
d. $0.
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