Discount (Railway Maths) (Part – I)

Total Questions: 60

21. A shopkeeper marks an article at ₹x and offers a discount of 20% on it. He sells it for ₹432 after charging VAT of 12.5% on the discounted price. What is the value of ₹x? [Group D 02/09/2022 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (d) ₹480
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22. A shopkeeper sells an item for ₹571.20 after giving two successive discounts of 20% and 15% on its marked price. Had he not given any discount, he would have earned a profit of 12%. What is the cost price (in ₹) of the item? [Group D 05/09/2022 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (c) 750
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23. The list price of a washing machine is ₹13,200. It is sold to a retailer after two successive discounts of 25% and 15%. The retailer wants to earn a profit of 20% on his cost after allowing a 25% discount (on its new list price) to the customer. At what price should he list the washing machine? [Group D 05/09/2022 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (b) 13,464
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24. A dealer buys two articles X and Y for ₹600 each. He marks each of them at the same price. He sells X by giving two successive discounts of 25% and 15% and still earns ₹216 as profit. If he sells Y at a single discount of 46%, then what is the profit percentage on Y? [Group D 05/09/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (d) 15.2%
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25. A trader gains 25% by selling an article after two successive discounts of 25% and 10% on its marked price. If the cost price of the article is increased by 30%, then what single discount should he now give on the same marked price to get the same profit percentage as earlier? [Group D 05/09/2022 (Evening)]

Correct Answer: (d) 12.25%
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26. A shopkeeper offers the following schemes on toys of same marked price. [Group D 06/09/2022 (Morning) ]

(A) A successive discount of 12% and 15% on any number of toys purchased.
(B) successive discount of 15%, 10% and 2% on any number of toys purchased.
(C) 40% off on the first 3 toys, and 15%  off on each subsequent toy.
(D) 2 toys free on purchase of 10 toys. A lady customer wants to buy 10 toys.
Which of the above schemes is most beneficial to her?

Correct Answer: (a) (A)
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27. The listed price of an article is ₹200. A customer purchases it at ₹150 after two successive discounts. If one discount is 10%, then the other discount percentage (rounded off to two decimal places) is: [Group D 09/09/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (c) 16.66%
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28. Which of the following two successive discounts are equivalent to a single discount of 84%? [Group D 12/09/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (b) 20% and 80%
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29. A bronze article having a marked price of ₹1,000 is sold during a festive season sale after three successive discounts of 20%, 30% and 10%. What will be the amount (in ₹) to be paid by a customer if he buys the article during the festival season? [Group D 15/09/2022 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (d) 504
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30. An article whose marked price is ₹ 800 is sold at a profit of 50% when there are successive discounts of 20%, 10%, and 5% offered by the shopkeeper. The selling price (rounded to the nearest rupee) when the article is sold at a profit of 60%, with the same cost price, is: [Group D 15/09/2022 (Afternoon) ]

Correct Answer: (c) ₹584
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