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A telephone company in a town has 500 subsribers on its list and collects fixed charges of Rs. 300/- per year form each subsriber. The company proposes to increase the annual charges and it is believed that for every increases of Rs. 1/0, one subsriber will discontinue service. Find what increase will bring maximum revenue?

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