A shopkeeper in order to promote his new shop put a discount of 20% on all the items for one day. Now he must sell the items at original price the other day. By what percentage must he increase the price to original?
A
21%
B
20%
C
25%
D
33%
E
18%
Correct answer: C
Explanation
Suppose every item is priced at $100. On 20% discount, the price will become $80. Now he must add $20 to each item for original price which is 25% of $80.
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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