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A man walked to a store with a fake 1000 note. He changed the note to two...................How much did the store lose?

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A man walked to a store with a fake 1000 note.
He changed the note to two 500 notes from the sales attendant.
He later went back to the attendant to pay for a 300 worth of goods
using one of the 500, and collected 200.
How much did the store lose?

posted Dec 7, 2015 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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3 Answers

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answer will be 700

answer Dec 8, 2015 by Kapil Kumar
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Assuming that the store had original notes, it lost 700 in cash and 300 in goods so.... 1000

answer Dec 10, 2015 by anonymous
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the store has lost 1000

answer May 7, 2016 by Rupjyoti Handique



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