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Question
Ayesha announced a festival discount of 25% on all the items in her mobile phone shop. Ramandeep bought a mobile phone for himself. He got a discount of Rs 1,960. What was the marked price of the mobile phone?
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Solution
Let the marked price of the mobile phone be ₹ x.
Festival discount on mobile phone = 25%
Ramandeep got total discount = ₹ 1960
According to the question,
`1960 = x xx 25/100`
⇒ `1960 = x/4`
⇒ `x/4 = 1960`
⇒ x = 1960 × 4 = ₹ 7840
Hence, marked price of mobile phone was ₹ 7840.
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