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A shopkeeper earns a profit of Rs. 1 by selling one pen and incurs a loss of 40 paise per pencil while selling pencils of her old stock.

In the next month she earns neither profit nor loss. If she sold 70 pens, how many pencils did she sell?

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175 pencils
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