A single discount equivalent to three successive discounts
of 20%, 25% and 10% is
a) 55% b) 50% c)48% d)46%

plz specify the method... thanks

Answer Posted / francis

hi Mishra,
is there any proper method for finding this? can u explain it without assuming the initial value as 100 or some thing? i expect some formula to calculate it..

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