Practicing Success
A retailer offers the following discount schemes for an article to his customers. A. Two equal successive discounts of 15% . B. Two successive discounts of 12% and 18%. C. Buy 7 articles and get 3 free. Which scheme is favourable to a customer? (assuming buys articles in a multiple of 10) |
Only A Only C Both A and C are the same Only B |
Only C |
Successive discount = X + y - \(\frac{x × y}{100}\) A. Two equal successive discounts of 15%= 15 + 15 - \(\frac{15 × 15}{100}\) = 27.75% B. Two successive discounts of 12% and 18% = 18 + 12 - \(\frac{18 × 12}{100}\) = 27.84% C. Buy 7 articles and get 3 free = \(\frac{3}{10}\) × 100 = 30% |