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Mr. Kasam runs a small business of making earthen pots. He makes certain number of pots on daily basis. Production cost of each pot is ₹40 more than 10 times total number of pots, he makes in one day. If production cost of all pots per day is ` 600, find production cost of one pot and number of pots he makes per day.

Let the number of pots made by Mr. Kasam each day be x. Then, production cost of each pot =

∴ total cost =



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Hence number of pots made cannot be negative. ∴ number of pots he made each day = 6


Cost of one pot =


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