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A noodles merchant buys two varieties of noodles the price of the first being twice that of the second. He sells the mixture at Rs 17.50 per kilogram thereby making a profit of 25% . If the ratio of the amounts of the first noodles and the second noodles in the mixture is 2:3, then the respective costs of each noodles are A) Rs 20, Rs 10 B) Rs 24, Rs 12 C) Rs 16, Rs 8 D) Rs 26, Rs 13 E) NONE

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A noodles merchant buys two varieties of noodles the price of the first being twice that of the second. He sells the mixture at Rs 17.50 per kilogram thereby making a profit of 25% . If the ratio of the amounts of the first noodles and the second noodles in the mixture is 2:3, then the respective costs of each noodles are A) Rs 20, Rs 10 B) Rs 24, Rs 12 C) Rs 16, Rs 8 D) Rs 26, Rs 13 E) NONE
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