Question

The price of a shirt after 15$\%$ discount, is $Rs.119.$ What was the marked price of the shirt before discount.

Answer 1

Let the original price be $x$

Discount is $15\%$

So the price is $x-\frac{15}{100}x=119x\left(\frac{17}{20}\right)=119x=119\times \frac{20}{17}x=7\times 20=140$