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A man walked to a store with a fake N1000 note..... How much did the store lose?

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A man walked to a store with a fake N1000 note. He changed the note to two N500 notes from the sales attendant. He later went back to the attendant to pay for a N300 worth of goods using one of the N500, and collected N200. How much did the store lose?

posted Dec 6, 2015 by Timilehin Oki

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