Discount
Q.1 A shopkeeper sold an article for ₹315 after giving a discount of d% on its
marked price of ₹420. What is the value of d?
Q.2 A fan has a marked price of ₹1,200. A shopkeeper offers a 15% discount
on it. What is the selling price?
Q.3 A microwave oven is sold for ₹4,800 after a discount of 20%. What was its
marked price?
Q.4 During a festival sale, a store offers a 15% discount on all products. If a
customer buys goods worth ₹3,600, how much money will they save?
Q.5 A store offers a scheme “Buy 5, Get 1 Free” on identical items with the
same marked price. What is the effective discount percentage a customer gets
under this scheme?
Q.6 A shopkeeper offers two discount schemes:
Scheme A: Buy 2, Get 3 Free
Scheme B: Buy 4, Get 5 Free
Which scheme gives a higher discount percentage?
Q.7 Successive discounts of 20% and 10% are offered on a product. What is
the single equivalent discount?
Q.8 Find the single equivalent discount for successive discounts of 20%, 30%,
and 40%.
Q.10 An electronic gadget is priced at ₹50,000. A discount of 15% is offered
for cash payment. An additional 10% discount is given to customers with a
membership card. How much will a member pay if they pay cash?
Q.11 An article is sold at successive discounts of 5%, 10%, and 15%. If the
marked price is ₹4,000, find the selling price.
Q.12 A company sells laptops at ₹80,000 each. A retailer buys 30 laptops and is
offered a trade discount of 12%. If the retailer pays within 15 days, he gets an
additional 3% discount. How much will the retailer pay if he pays within 15
days?
Q.14 A shirt has a marked price of ₹1,200. It is sold for ₹816 after two
successive discounts. If the first discount is 15%, what is the second discount?
Q.15 An article is marked at ₹12,000. Successive discounts of 10%, 15%, and k
% are offered, and the final selling price becomes ₹7,344.
What is the selling price if a single discount of (k + 10)% is offered instead?
Day 2
Q.1 A merchant marks an item at 60% above its cost price and gives a discount
of 25% to the customer. What is his overall profit percentage?
Q.2 A shopkeeper lists the price of a washing machine at 30% above its cost
price and offers a 20% discount on the listed price. If he finally sells it for
₹12,320, what is the cost price of the washing machine?
Q.3 An item is marked 25% above its cost price. A discount of x% on the
marked price results in a net profit of 15%. Now, if a new item has a cost price
of ₹18,000, and the seller wants a profit of x%, what should be the selling
price?
Q.4 A trader gives a 30% discount on the marked price of an item and still
makes a 20% profit. If the cost price decreases by 10%, and he gives a 40%
discount on the same marked price, what will be his profit percentage in the
new scenario?*
Q.5 The marked price of an article is 25% more than its cost price.
What is the minimum discount percentage that can be offered by the
shopkeeper so that he neither makes a profit nor a loss?
Q.6 A shopkeeper gives a 15% discount on the marked price of an item and
still makes a 20% profit. If the marked price is ₹5,750, what is the cost price
of the item?*
Q.7 The marked price of an article is ₹15,600. A customer buys it at a
discounted price and later sells it at the full marked price. If the customer makes
a 15% profit on the cost price, what was the percentage discount given to
him at the time of purchase?
Q.8 To sell his inventory, a seller marks up goods by 25% over cost and gives a
10% discount. He spends x rupees on promotion. His total cost is ₹2,40,000. If
he neither earns profit nor suffers a loss, what is the value of x?
Q.9 Two shopkeepers, X and Y, sell the same article. Shopkeeper X marks the
item 30% above the cost price and offers a discount of 20%. Shopkeeper Y
marks the item 40% above the cost price and gives a discount of 25%.Who
makes more profit, and by how much percent?
Q.10 Ravindra purchased raw materials worth a certain amount to make a
product. Due to spoilage, 25% of the raw materials got wasted and couldn't be
[Link] incurred an additional 85% of the cost of usable raw materials as
manufacturing cost. He sold the final product after giving a 20% discount on the
marked price, and still earned an overall profit of 25%. How many times of the
total cost of raw materials purchased was the marked price of the product?