Question

A shop has a sale and reduces all its prices at the rate of 15k in naira. Find the sale price of an article marked at 740 naira. ​

Answer 1

Sales price of article = 629 naira

Explanation:

Given:

Discounted rate = 15%

Marked price of article = 740 naira

Find:

Sales price of article

Computation:

Sales price of article = Marked price of article [1 - Discounted rate]

Sales price of article = 740[1 - 15%]

Sales price of article = 740[1 - 0.15]

Sales price of article = 740[0.85]

Sales price of article = 629 naira