Question

An article is sold at two discounts of 20% each. The overall discount is ___ .

• A. 40%
• B. 36%
• C. 32%
• D. 27.8%

Answer 1

The correct option is B 36%

Let Marked Price(MP) = ₹ 100

After first discount of 20% we get : $100-\frac{20}{100}\times$ 100 = ₹ 100 - ₹ 20 = ₹80

After second discount of 20% we get : $80-\frac{20}{100}\times$ 80 = ₹ 80 - ₹ 16 = ₹64

Overall discount = $\frac{100-64}{100}\times 100$ = 36%