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A businessman purchased some notebooks for ₹960. If he had bought 8 more notebooks for the same amount, the cost of each notebook would have decreased by ₹4. What was the original number of notebooks purchased?

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

Let the original number of notebooks be nn.

Original cost per notebook =960n=\dfrac{960}{n}, while the cost per notebook after buying 8 more would be 960n+8\dfrac{960}{n+8}.

The decrease in cost is ₹4:

960n−960n+8=4\dfrac{960}{n}-\dfrac{960}{n+8}=4

Simplifying gives n(n+8)=1920n(n+8)=1920.

n2+8n−1920=0n^2+8n-1920=0

The positive root is n=40n=40.

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