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A fruit seller has a certain number of apples of which $5 %$ are rotten. He sells $93 %$ of the remainder and then has $266$ left. How many apples he had originally?

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$L e t t h e n u m b e r o f a p p l e s b e x, G i v e n, r o t t e n a p p l e s = 0.05 x, a p p l e s r e m a i n i n g = 0.95 x, A p p l e s s o l d = 0.93 * 0.95 x = 0.8835 x, a p p l e s r e m a i n i n g = 0.95 x - 0.8835 x = 266 x = 4000$

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