Question 8 of 17beginner🧠 RememberVery Short1 mark
What did the fruit seller do by mistake?
Correct Answer
The fruit seller gave Chinna ten rupees extra as change. Kamala paid with a hundred-rupee note for two pineapples costing ninety rupees total, so the correct change should have been ten rupees, but the seller mistakenly gave twenty rupees.
Exercise: Let us Think | Q: 3 | (Chapter: Page 6)
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Explanation
The chapter describes the market scene where Kamala bought two pineapples at forty-five rupees each (total ninety rupees) and paid with a hundred-rupee note. The fruit seller should have returned ten rupees as change but instead gave two ten-rupee notes (twenty rupees), making an error of ten rupees extra.