Question

A man offer a discount of 20% on the selling price on a special sale day, he offers an extra 25 % off coupon after the first discount. if the article was sold for rs.3600 find cost price and cost price if the man still makes a profit of 80% on the whole after all discount are applied

Answer 1

Let the marked price of the article be x.

First a 20% discount was offered, on which another 25% discount was offered.

So, 75% of 80% of x = 3600

75/100 * 80/100 * x = 3600 → x = 6000.

So the article was marked at Rs. 6000.

Cost price of the article = [100/(100+80)]*3600 = Rs. 2000.