A shopkeeper marks the price of an item above its cost. During a festival, he offers a sequence of discounts — first a discount, then an additional off on the reduced price, and finally gives a further rebate of on the total bill for 10 identical items. If after all these reductions, he still makes a profit of on selling the 10 items, what is the cost price of one item?
A shopkeeper marks the price of an item above its cost. During a festival, he offers a sequence of discounts — first a discount, then an additional off on the reduced price, and finally gives a further rebate of on the total bill for 10 identical items. If after all these reductions, he still makes a profit of on selling the 10 items, what is the cost price of one item?
Solution
Let the Cost Price (CP) of one item be .
Since there are 10 identical items:
Total Cost Price
The Marked Price (MP) is above the CP.
MP of one item of
Total Marked Price (for 10 items)
Applying the first discount of :
Price after first discount
Applying the second discount of on the reduced price:
Price after second discount
After the rebate of on the total bill:
Final Selling Price (SP)
The shopkeeper makes a total profit of on the Total Cost Price ().
Final SP
of
Equating the two expressions for Final Selling Price:
Therefore, the cost price of one item is .