Learn to find the best deals, when you are going through various offers online, with the help of this riddle.
A brand new Bose Headphone was on sale at 20% as a promotional offer.
By what percent must the headphone price be increased to sell it at the original price again?
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Answer:
Suppose a $ 100 item is reduced by 20%, the price will drop to $ 80.
Now to make it the original price we must add $ 20 more which is 25% of $ 80.
Hence Answer = 25 %
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The way the question is asked, the actual answer is 500%. If the question was “marked down by 20%” than your response would be correct. But your question was worded that the price was marked AT 20%