The bookshop of a particular school has 10 dozen chemistry books, 8 dozen physics books, 10 dozen economics books. Their selling prices are Rs 80, Rs 60 and Rs 40 each respectively. Find the total amount the bookshop will receive from selling all the books using matrix algebra.
The bookshop has 10 dozen chemistry books, 8 dozen physics books, and 10 dozen economics books. The selling prices of a chemistry book, a physics book, and an economics book are respectively given as Rs 80, Rs 60, and Rs 40. The total amount of money that will be received from the sale of all these books can be represented in the form of a matrix as:
\(12\begin{bmatrix}10&8&10\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}80\\60\\40\end{bmatrix}\)
=12[10 x 80+8 x 60+10 x 40]
=12(800+480+400)
=12(1680)
=20160
Thus, the bookshop will receive Rs 20160 from the sale of all these books.
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Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister said that the Central Government has taken many proactive steps in the past few years to control retail prices of food items. He said that the government aims to keep inflation under control without compromising the country’s economic growth. Retail inflation inched up to a three-month high of 5.55% in November 2023 driven by higher food prices. Inflation has been declining since August 2023, when it touched 6.83%. 140 new price monitoring centres had been set up by the Central Government to keep a close watch on wholesale and retail prices of essential commodities. The Government has banned the export of many food items like wheat, broken rice, non-basmati white rice, onions etc. It has also reduced import duties on edible oils and pulses to boost domestic supply and control price rise. On the basis of the given text and common understanding,
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