Mathematics
A shopkeeper buys a certain number of books for ₹960. If the cost per book was ₹8 less, the number of books that could be bought for ₹960 would be 4 more. Taking the original cost of each book to be ₹x, write an equation in x and solve it to find the original cost of each book.
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