Monday, January 15, 2007

"GRE QUESTION ON DEMAND"

The list price of a watch costing $450 is $700.if it is was sold at successive discounts of
10% and d%,the net profit is $54.if instead of offering successive discounts a single discount of 1.5d% is offered, the profit would be
(A) $40
(B)$70
(C)$100
(D)$60
(E)$8.10

submitted by vidya chichilli

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

answer is a) 40$

Anonymous said...

$40...
cost price is $450 and selling price is $700...10%discount makes selling price $630 but profit gained is $54 making the selling price $504...so D% discount is (630-504)100/630=20...so D=20...so if 1.5D% discount i.e. 30% discount is given then the selling price will be $490 and the profit will be $40(490-450)