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by radhika1306 » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:29 pm
. There were 36.000 hardback copies of a certain novel sold before the paperback version was issued. From the time the first paperback copy was sold until the last copy of the novel was sold. 9 times as many paperback copies as hardback copies were sold. If a total of 441.000 copies of the novel were sold in all, how many paperback copies were sold?
(A) 45.000
(B) 360.000
(C) 364.500
(D) 392.000
(E) 396.900

ANS C

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by mindruna » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:13 pm
441,000-36,000=405,000 (number of books sold after paperback was released)

x+9x=405,000
10x=405,000
x=40,500

9(x)=total number of paperbacks sold=364,500