Question

A shopkeeper offers successive discounts of 10%, 5% and 4% on an article. If 18% is charged as GST and

the selling price, including GST is Rs. 9685.44, find the list price of the article. What amount of GST was

charged ? Also find the amount of GST paid by the shopkeeper to the Government if he purchased at 22 %

discount.​

Answer 1

I have given all the terms given in the question with the solution corresponding to which the answers you will get.

the steps that you will follow to answer the question:

• firstly you will write all the discounts
• then you will write the GST as we have to find the GST amount also.
• selling price of the article including the tax which is given in the question.
• and you have to find the list price.
• the last thing that we have to find is the amount of GST paid by the shopkeeper to the government if you purchase at 22 % discount.