Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Question: There were 36,000 hardback copies of a certain novel sold before the paperback version was issued. From the time the first paperback copy was sold until the last copy of the novel was sold 9 times as many paperback copies as hardback copies were sold. If a total of 439,000 copies of the novel were sold in all, how many paperback copies were sold?

 Option A: 45,000

 Option B: 360,000

 Option C: 362,700

 Option D: 392,000

 Option E: 396,900
Output (English): Option C