Discount

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Discount: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Discount as Percentage, Discount on Sale of an Item, Finding Amount of Discount Given as Percentage, Estimation of Amount of Discount Given as Percentage, Banker's Discount & True Discount etc.

Important Questions on Discount

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After allowing a discount of 1000 on marked price a trader makes a profit of 1500. The ratio of the marked price to the cost price is

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A trader allows two successive discounts of 20% and 10%. If he gets 108 for an article, find its marked price.

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The list price of a watch is160 . After two successive discount it is sold for 122.40. The first discount is 10%. The rate of the second discount is-

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Two successive discount of10% and 20% are equivalent to a single discount?

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Successive discounts of 15% and 20% amount to a single discount of:

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With a 5% discount on the cost of sugar, a buyer could purchase 2 kg more sugar for Rs. 608. Selling price of sugar is -

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A merchant has announced 25% rebate on prices of ready-made garments at the time of sale. If a purchaser needs to have rebate of  400, then how many shirts, each costing  320, should he purchase?

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Successive discounts of 10% and 20% is equivalent to a single discount of _____.

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A trader marks his goods at2000  above the cost price.If he allows a discount of 500 on the marked price,what profit percent does he make?

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If a selling price of 24 rupees results after 20% discount on the list price of an article, the selling price that would result after 30% discount on the list price is;

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A shopkeeper purchased an article for ₹ 500 and marked the price of the article as ₹ 1000. Then he decided to provide three discount of a%, b% and c% in such a way that a+b+c=30. Then what can be range of profit percentage made by the shopkeeper in the transaction?

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Successive discount of 20% and 25% are equivalent to a single discount of-

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A single discount equivalent to a discount series of 30%, 20% and 10% is -

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A dealer marks his goods 20% above cost price. He then allows some discount on it and makes a profit of 8%. The rate of discount is-

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Successive discounts of 10%, 20% and 30% is equivalent to a single discount of :

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Find the original marked price of the fan from the given data. A fan in a shop is offered at a discount of 10%. It is sold during clearance sale at 6% discount over the already discounted price at 846.

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The true discount on a certain sum of money due 222 yrs. hence is150 and the simple interest on the same sum for the same time and at the same rate is  200. Interest rate per annum is:

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A single discount equivalent to two successive discounts of 1212% and 20% is -

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A shopkeeper sold an article at a profit of 17.5%. If he had bought it at 8% less and sold it at 30% profit, he would have earned 11.55 more as profit. Cost price of the article is

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Tarun bought a TV at 20% discount on the labelled price. At what price did he buy the TV if he bought it with 25% discount, he would have saved 500 ?