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In an examination, a pupil’s average marks was 63 per paper. If he had obtained 20 more marks for his Geography paper and 2 more marks for his History paper, his average per paper would have been 65. How many papers were there in the examination? (a) 8        (b) 9        (c) 10        (d) 11

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