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1. A shopkeeper allows a discount of 12.5% on the marked price of a certain article and makes a profit of 20%. If the article costs the shopkeeper Rs. 210, then the marked price of the article will be = ?

A. Rs. 387

B. Rs. 350

C. Rs. 386

D. Rs. 288

Solution:

\begin{aligned} Market price of the article \\ = 210 \times \frac{120}{100} \times \frac{100}{87.5} \\ = Rs . 288 \end{aligned}

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