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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 - Mathematics

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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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Chapter 9: Comparing Quantities - Exercise [Page 297]

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NCERT Exemplar Mathematics [English] Class 8
Chapter 9 Comparing Quantities
Exercise | Q 88. | Page 297

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