Discount and Profit: Finding Marked Price and Cost Price

Discount and Profit: Finding Marked Price and Cost Price

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A shop is selling a television at \(\$5850\) after offering a discount of \(10\%\).

Despite offering the discount, the shop is still able to make a profit of \(12.5\%\).

Calculate the

  1. usual price of the television before the discount.
  2. cost price of the television.

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Answer:(a) Usual price \(=\$6500\) (b) Cost price \(=\$5200\)

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