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Ram went to a market and bought one copy of a Mathematics book and two pencils for Rs.65. Rahim went to the same market and bought another…

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Ram went to a market and bought one copy of a Mathematics book and two pencils for Rs.65. Rahim went to the same market and bought another copy of the same book and ten pencils of the same brand for Rs.69. The price of each pencil was

ARs. 0.50
BRs. 1
CRs. 0.75
DRs. 2

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CCommunity14 May 2019

Let the price of a pencil be p and the price of the textbook be M.

For Ram, the total cost = M + 2p = 65

For Rahim, the total cost = M + 10p = 69

We subtract the second equation from the first, and see that

8p = 4

⇒ p = 0.5