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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

The approximate cost of restoring the Flying Scotsman was £4 million. This was about 500 times the cost of building the steam engine in 1923. Roughly what did the engine cost to build?

(A) £800 (B) £2000 (C) £8000 (D) £20\,000 (E) £80\,000

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