Mathematics
An employer finds that if he increases the weekly wages of each worker by ₹ 5 and employs five workers less, he increases his weekly wage bill from ₹ 3150 to ₹ 3250. Taking the original weekly wage of each worker as ₹ x; obtain an equation in x and then solve it to find the weekly wages of each worker.
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