Question

A tape recorder is sold at $Rs.5,225$ after being given a discount of $5$%. What is its marked price?

Answer 1

We are given that the discount is $5$%. This means that for $Rs.100$, the discount is $Rs.5$.
Therefore, selling price $=Rs.100-Rs.5=Rs.95$.
Thus on a selling price of $Rs.95$, the marked price is $Rs.100$.
On a selling price of $Rs.5,225$, the marked price $=\frac{100}{95}\times 5225=5500$.
Therefore, marked price of the tape recorder is $Rs.5,500$.