Mathematics
A trader bought a number of articles for ₹ 1200. Ten were damaged and he sold each of the remaining articles at ₹ 2 more than what he paid for it, thus getting a profit of ₹ 60 on the whole transaction.
Taking the number of articles he bought as x, form an equation in x and solve it.
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