Question

a shirt whose marked price is 8000/= is sold to a customer at 13% discount if the trader make a profit of 20% find how much the trader had paid for the shirt​

Answer 1

The trader had paid
`5800` for the shirt.

Explanation:

Price for which the shirt was sold
`= 0.87* 8000\:=\:6960`

Let's say, the purchase price of the shirt for the trader was
`x`.

`1.2x = 6960\\\\x=5800`