(i) John and Jivanti together have 45 marbles. Both of them lost 5 marbles each others, and product of the marbles they now have is 124. We would like to find how many marbles they had to start with?

(ii) A cottage industry produces a certain number of toys in a day. The cost of production of each toy (in rupees) was found to be 55 minus the number of toys produced in a day. On a particular day, the total cost of production was ₹750. We would like to find out the number of toys produced on that day.

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(i)Let the number of marbles John had be x.
Then the number of marbles Jivanti had be 45-x
They lost 5 marbles to each others.
Hence now the number of marbles of John is x-5 and that of Jivanti is 45-x-5 = 40-x.
Then by given condition we have
(x-5)(40-x) = 124
40x-200-x2+5x = 124
x2-45x+324 = 0
x2-36x-9x+324 = 0
x(x-36)-9(x-36) = 0
(x-36)(x-9) = 0
x-36 = 0
x = 36
or x-9 = 0
x = 9
Therefore, they had 36 and 9 marvels respectively.

(ii)Let the number of toys produced on that day is x.
Therefore, the cost of production of each toy on that day is (55-x)
So, the total cost of production on that day is = x(55-x)
Then using the given condition, we have,
x(55-x) = 750
55x-x2 =750
x2-55x+750 = 0
x2-25x-30x+750 = 0
x(x-25)-30(x-25) = 0
(x-25)(x-30) = 0
x-25 = 0
x =25
or x-30 =0
x = 30
Therefore, the number of toys produced on that day is 25 or 30.

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