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....they made a purchase of seventeen lakh fifty thousand brooms...
... twenty-one lakh water-carriers set out with bags of water...
a. Why do you think the speaker gives us these numbers?

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Explanation:

“...they made a purchase of seventeen lakh fifty thousands rooms..." "...twenty-one lakh water-carriers set out with bags of water..." The author gives us these numbers to emphasize the large scale of the efforts made by the people in the kingdom to solve the problem.