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Q. The shopkeeper uses faulty balance. He puts a certain quantity of food grains in one of the pans which weighs 0.5kg and found the weight in kg to a two digit number. however when insisted by the customer he puts the same quantity of food grains on the other pan which weighs 0.75kg and found the weight in kg to be 9.5 kg more than the weight which is obtained by reversing the digits of the previously indicated weight. Find which one of the following could not be the actual weight(kg) of the food grains?
1) 43.25
2) 36.25
3) 41.50
4) both (2) and (3)
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