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Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow
The year is 1609. A group of Spanish pirates have ransacked a town named Potosi in South America. The pirates are denoted as P1, P2, P3, P4 and so on in serial order (Note: the exact number of pirates is not known). The town is famous for gemstones and total five types of gemstones (named A, B, C, D and E) are abundantly found there. Each pirate randomly stole one gemstone each of the two out of these five types of gemstones such that no two pirates in the group stole the same pair of gemstones. Further, there was no pair of gemstones which was not stolen by a pirate.
On returning Madrid, the pirates learnt that the prices of the gemstones of types A, B, C, D and E were 10 pesetas, 100 pesetas, 1000 pesetas, 10000 pesetas and 100000 pesetas respec vely.
The following points are known:
1. The total price of all the gemstones stolen by P1, P4 and P5 together was 2,220 pesetas.
2. The total price of all the gemstones stolen by P2, P6 and P8 together was 3,11,100 pesetas.
3. P7 stole a gemstone of type B.
4. P3 stole a gemstone of type C.
5. P9 stole a gemstone of type D