A cottage industry produces a certain number of pottery articles in a day. it was observed on a particular day that the cost of production of each article (in rupees) was more than twice the number of articles produced on that day. If the total cost of production on that day was , find the number of articles produced and the cost of each article.
let us assume the total number of article
The cost of an article
Now, we know that
As the articles cannot be in the negative number, hence
Therefore, the total number of articles is .
Now, the cost of one article is
Hence, the cost of one article is .