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A shopkeeper purchase a certain number of books for Rs 960. If the cost per books was Rs 8 less, the number of books that could be purchased for Rs 960 would be 4 more. Write an equation, taking the ioriginal cost of each book to be Rs x, and solve it to find ther original cost of the books.

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