Question

A shopkeeper earns a profit of Re 1 by selling one pen and incurs a loss
of 40 paise per pencil while selling pencils of her old stock.
(i) In a particular month she incurs a loss of Rs 5. In this period, she sold 45 pens. How
many pencils did she sell in this period?
(ii) In
the next month she earns neither profit nor loss. If she sold 70 pens, how many
pencils did she sell?

Answer 1

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