Question

Successive discounts of 20% and 12% are equivalent to a single discount of:

Answer 1

20 or 40

Explanation:

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Answer 2

exp.

100 $;
discount of 20% => 80$;
discount of 12%% => 80 - 80*(12/100) = 71.4 $;

100 - (x/100)*100 = 71.4 => x = 29.6 => a single discount of 29.6%;