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Reena has pens and pencils which together are 40 in number. If she has 5 more pencils and 5 less pens, then nuimber of pencils would become 4 times the number of pens. Find the original number of pens and pencils.

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Let the number of pens be x and that of pencil be y. then,

Adding equation (i) and equation (ii), we get

Hence, Reena has 13 pens 27 pencils.

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