Balbharati solutions for Mathematics 8th Standard Maharashtra State Board chapter 9 - Discount and Commission [Latest edition]

A farmer sold foodgrains for 9200 rupees through an agent. The rate of commission was 2%. How much amount did the agent get?

The marked price of the fan is 3000 rupees. Shopkeeper gave 12% discount on it. Find the total discount and selling price of the fan.

The marked price of a mixer is 2300 rupees. A customer purchased it for Rs. 1955. Find percentage of discount offered to the customer.

A shopkeeper gives 11% discount on a television set, hence the cost price of it is Rs. 22,250. Then find the marked price of the television set.

After offering discount of 10% on marked price, a customer gets total discount of 17 rupees. To find the cost price for the customer, fill in the following boxes with appropriate numbers and complete the activity.

Suppose, marked price of the item = 100 rupees

Therefore, for customer that item costs \[0     -   0\] =  = 90 rupees

Hence, when the discount is \[0\] then the selling price is \[0\]  rupees. 

Suppose when the discount is \[0\] rupees, the selling price is x rupees.

\[\therefore   \frac{x}{0} = \frac{0}{0}                  \therefore x = \frac{0  \times 0}{0} =   0\]

∴ the customer will get the item for 153 rupees.

A shopkeeper decides to sell a certain item at a certain price. He tags the price on the item by increasing the decided price by 25%. While selling the item, he offers 20% discount. Find how many more or less percent he gets on the decided price.

John sold books worth rupees 4500 for a publisher. For this he received 15% commission. Complete the following activity to find the total commission John obtained.

Selling price of books = \[0\]

Rate of commission = \[0\]

Commission obtained = \[\frac{0}{0} \times   0\]

∴ Commission = \[0\] rupees.

Rafique sold flowers worth ₹ 15,000 by giving 4% commission to the agent. Find the commission he paid. Find the amount received by Rafique.

Umatai purchased following items from a Khadi-Bhandar.
(i) 3 sarees for 560 rupees each.
(ii) 6 bottles of honey for 90 rupees each.
On the purchase, she received a rebate of 12% . How much total amount did Umatai pay?

Use the given information and fill in the boxes with suitable numbers. Smt. Deepanjali purchased a house for ₹7,50,000 from Smt. Leelaben through an agent. Agent has charged 2% brokerage from both of them.

(1) Smt. Deepanjali paid \[0   \times \frac{0}{0}\] = ₹ \[0\] brokerage for purchasing the house.

(2) Smt. Leelaben paid brokerage of ₹ \[0\].

(3) Total brokerage received by the agent is ₹ \[0\].

(4) The cost of house Smt. Deepanjali paid is ₹ \[0\].

(5) The selling price of house for Smt. Leelaben is ₹ \[0\].