2002 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 14
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Problem
A merchant offers a large group of items at off. Later, the merchant takes
off these sale prices and claims that the final price of these items is
off the original price. The total discount is
Solution
Solution 1
Let's assume that each item is dollars. First we take off
off of
dollars.
Next, we take off the extra as asked by the problem.
So the final price of an item is $56. We have to do because
was the final price and we wanted the discount. So the final answer is
, which is answer choice
.
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