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Aditya went to a stationery shop to buy some Parker pens. Gel pens cost Rs 300 each while fountain pens cost Rs 400 each. Aditya spent a total of Rs 3600 on pens. If he had bought as many fountain pens as the number of gel pens he actually bought and vice-versa, he would have saved an amount equal to half the cost of one pen of one of the two types. Find the total number of pens he bought. (a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 12

Neelima went to a shop to buy a dress. Marked price of the dress is ₹1000. Shop owner gave a discount of 20% and then 5 %. Find the single discount equivalent to these two successive discounts.

Preethi went to a shop to buy a dress. Its marked price is ₹ 2500. Shop owner gave 5% discount on it. On further insistence, he gave 3% more discount. What will be the final discount she obtained? Will it be equal to a single discount of 8% Think, discuss with your friends and write it in your notebook.

Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to go to the market to buy a few handkerchiefs, the old ones had done vanishing trick. On the way I met an old friend of mine and I took him to a nearby restaurant for tea and snacks. Afterwards I went to the shop and selected a dozen handkerchiefs. I pulled out my purse to make the payment, and discovered that it was empty, I then realized that it was not my purse, it was a different purse altogether. How that happened is still a source of wonder to me and I refuse to believe that it was the work of my good old friend, for it was his purse that I held in my hand. The man could not buy the handkerchiefs because