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  1. Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number of notebooks each child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the number of children been half, each child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks were distributed ?

    2. A.

    256
    B.

    43
    C.

    512
    D.

    640
    E.

    None of these

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    Answer : Option C

    Explanation :

    Let total number of children be x.

    Then, x x\( \frac { 1 } {8 } X\)=\( \frac { X } { 2 } \)x 16     x = 64.

     Number of notebooks =\( \frac { 1 } {8 } X\)2

    =\( [\frac { 1 } {8 } \)x 64 x 64]=512

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