A shopkeeper first increased the price of an item by 12% and then announces a discount of 20% The…
Take the original price as 100. After a 12 percent rise it is 112, and a 20 percent discount gives \(112\times0.8=89.6\). The net fall from 100 is 10.4, so the actual…
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A shopkeeper first increased the price of an item by 12% and then announces a discount of 20%
The actual discount on the original price is:
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Take the original price as 100. After a 12 percent rise it is 112, and a 20 percent discount gives . The net fall from 100 is 10.4, so the actual discount is 10.4 percent.
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