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The organisers of an essay competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a prize of Rs 100 and a participant who does not win gets a prize of Rs 25. The total prize money distributed is Rs 3,000. Find the number of winners, if the total number of participants is 63.

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To solve the problem step by step, we will follow the reasoning used in the video transcript. ### Step 1: Define the variables Let \( x \) be the number of winners in the competition. ### Step 2: Determine the number of non-winners Since the total number of participants is 63, the number of non-winners can be expressed as: \[ ...
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