Question

a shopkeeper allows a discount of 20% on the marked price of an article, and sells it for 896
(a) Calculate the marked price of the article.​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

let Mark price is X;

Applying 20% discount on X; which is equal to the selling price.

X - (20X/100 ) = 896;

80X/100 = 896;

now solving this and finding the value of X;

we get X = 1120, marked price