Arihant Expert Team Solutions for Exercise 2: Practice Exercise

The marked price of an electric iron is $Rs.690$. The shopkeeper allows a discount of $10\%$ and gains $8\%$. If no discount is allowed, his gain percentage would be?

A fan is listed at $Rs. 1400$ and the discount offered is $10\%$. What additional discount must be given to bring the net selling price to $Rs. 1200$?

The marked prices of big and small notebooks are $Rs. 10$ and $Rs. 15$ respectively. A student bought $5$ dozens small and $10$ dozens big notebooks at a total discount of $5\%.$ Find the total discount amount?

A shopkeeper purchased a chair marked at $Rs.600$ at two successive discounts of $15\%$ and $20\%$ respectively. He spent $Rs.28$ on transportation and sold the chair for $Rs.545$. His gain percent was?

By selling an article at $\frac{3}{4}$th of the marked price, there is a gain of $25\%$. The ratio of the marked price and the cost price is:

To gain $8\%$ after allowing a discount of $10\%$ by what percent cost price should be hiked in the list price? 

The cost price of an article is $\mathrm{Rs}.800$. After allowing a discount of $10\%$, a gain of $12.5\%$ was made. Then, the marked price of the article is?

A discount of $2\frac{1}{2}\%$ is given to the customer on the marked price of an article. A man bought the article for $\mathrm{Rs}.39$. The marked price of the article is?