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A third of Arun’s marks in mathematics exeeds a half of his marks in english by 80. If he got 240 marks In two subjects together how many marks did he got in english?

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Let Arun’s marks in mathematics and english be x and y 

Then 1/3x-1/2y=30 

2x-3y=180……>(1) 

x+y=240…….>(2) 

solving (1) and (2) 

x=180 and y=60



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