A shopkeeper offers discount 50% + 50% on a shirt of M.R.P. ₹800, find the selling price of the shirt.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → ₹200
“50% + 50%” means two successive discounts: the second 50% is taken on the price left after the first, not on the M.R.P. again.
After the first 50%: \(800-400=400\)
After the second 50% (on 400): \(400-200=200\)
Tip: Successive discounts are never just added. Two discounts of 50% leave \(0.5\times0.5=0.25\) of the price, a total discount of 75%, not 100% (which would wrongly give ₹0).