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Which is cheaper a pen or pencil?

Updated: 10/5/2023
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Pencils are made out of wood and have a graphite filling which puts the mark on the paper. Pencils used to use lead but they found that it could be poisonous. This mark can be rubbed out, but may look scruffy. Pens are more formal but use any coloured ink, the ink is normally blue, black or red. Once this ink touches the paper it soaks in, making the mark permanent, so if you make a mistake, you have to use liquid paper (white out) to cover over it. Some pens have special erasers that can remove the ink. Hope I helped :P

It's apparent that you're hopelessly clueless about pens and pencils. So i am to the rescue..... A pencil uses graphite, commonly knows as lead, to write on paper where as a pen uses ink! Another difference is that a pencil allows you to do more shading to pictures where as your very limited to a few shade differences with a pen. Pencil graphite can be erased but most pen ink cannot. With a pen you have a chance of it leaking ink and staining your clothes which will be almost impossible to wash out but a pen does not leak and you can wash graphite stains off your clothing, with a little help of stain removal advice for dummies from rapidbyte.org. With a pen the ink allows you to be able to write on more surfaces than a pencil.

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Both a pen and a pencil have their individual uses, it all depends on the need

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Depends on the job at hand and your personal preference.

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a PENCIL.

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