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CAT/1996
Question . 186
Once I had been to the post-office to buy stamps of five rupees, two rupees and one rupee. I paid the clerk Rs 20, and since he did not have change, he gave me three more stamps of one rupee. If the number of stamps of each type that I had ordered initially was more than one, what was the total number of stamps that I bought?
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(a) The number of stamps that were initially bought were more than one of each type. Hence, the total number of stamps = 2(5 rupee) + 2(2 rupee) + 3(1 rupee) + 3(1 rupee) = 10