Percentage Practice Test 3 with solutions

Question : 27 of 40

Marks: +1, -0

A shopkeeper first increased the price of a T-shirt by 15% and then gave a discount of 15%. What is the final price of the T-shirt?

Solution:

Let the increase in price of 15% be x and discount of 15% be y.
Then,

±x±y±{xy}/100

=15-15-{15×15}/100=-2.25%

Thus the price of the T-shirt decreased by 2.25%

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