Question
A shopkeeper offers the following schemes on toys of the same marked price.
(A) Successive discounts of 16% and 29% on any number of toys bought.
(B) Successive discounts of 4%, 34% and 37% on any number of toys bought.
(C) 12% discount on the first 4 toys and 27% discount on each toy thereon.
(D) 4 toys free of cost on buying 10 toys.
A customer wants to buy 10 toys. Which of the above schemes is the least beneficial to her?
Asked in RRB NTPC (UG) CBT-I · 2026
Discount and MP · Quantitative Aptitude
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If marked price and discount are given, Selling Price = MP × (1 − discount/100).
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Successive discounts are applied one after another, so simply adding the discount percentages can give the wrong answer.
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