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An institution intended to buy a certain number of chairs for Ksh.16 200. The supplier agreed to offer a discount of Ksh 60 per chair which enabled the institution to get 3 more chairs. Taking x as the originally intended number of chairs,
(a) Write an expression in terms of x for: (i) Original price per chair (ii) Price per chair after discount
(b) Determine: (i) The number of chairs the institution originally intended to buy; (ii) Price per chair after discount; (iii) The amount of money the institution would have saved per chair if it bought the intended number of chairs at a discount of 15%