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Salem uncle of our village used of this savings to buy a house after his retirement from a government job. One day after falling in trouble, he sold his house and got 5% more than his cost price. If he would have taken Rs. 3450 rupees more then he would get 8% more than his cost price. Let’s find the amount of money Salem uncle used to buy his house, and his entire savings.

Let salem uncle savings is x.

� part of savings is which he used to buy the house.


After selling it he got 5% more than the cost price i.e


8% more than cost price is e


According to the question,






3x = 3450 × 200


3x = 690000


X = Rs 230000


So, the cost of house is


= Rs 115000


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