Arithmetic

Profit & Loss

Medium

After getting two successive discounts, a book with a list price of Rs. 150 is available at Rs. 105. If the second discount is 12.5%, find the first discount.

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✅ Correct Option: 2

The second discount of 12.5% leaves 87.5% of the intermediate price, so that price is $105 / 0.875 = 120$ .

First discount $= (150 - 120)/150 \times 100 = 20\%$ .

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