While selling a watch, a shopkeeper gives a discount of 5%. If he gives a discount of 7%, he earns Rs. 15 less as profit. The marked price of the watch is:
A
Rs. 697.50
B
Rs. 712.50
C
Rs. 787.50
D
Rs. 750
E
Rs. 780
Correct answer: D
Explanation
If he increases the discount by 2%, then his profit is 15 less. Let the marked price be X.
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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