Question

After successive discounts of $12\%$ and $5\%$ an article was sold for $Rs.209$. What was the original price of the article?

• A. $Rs.266$
• B. $Rs.250$
• C. $Rs.252$
• D. $Rs.269$

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

$Rs.250$

Let the original price be $x$ then

Given that:

$95$% of $88$% of $x=209$

$x=\frac{209\times 100\times 100}{88\times 95}$

$x=Rs.250.$