A shopkeeper offers the following schemes on toys of the same marked price.
(A) Successive discounts of 3% and 7% on any number of toys bought.
(B) Successive discounts of 8%, 39% and 26% on any number of toys bought.
(C) 11% discount on the first 4 toys and 32% discount on each toy thereon.
(D) 4 toys free of cost on buying 5 toys. A customer wants to buy 5 toys. Which of the above schemes is the least beneficial to her?
A
Let the marked price of one toy be 100. For scheme A, successive discounts of 3% and 7% give an effective price of 100 × 0.97 × 0.93 = 90.21, which is only about a 9.79% discount per toy.
For scheme B, successive discounts of 8%, 39% and 26% give 100 × 0.92 × 0.61 × 0.74 ≈ 41.53, i.e. a huge 58.47% discount per toy.
For scheme C, 4 toys at 11% discount and 1 toy at 32% discount cost (4 × 89) + (1 × 68) = 424 for 5 toys, which is a 15.2% effective discount. For scheme D, buying 5 toys brings 4 extra toys free, giving 9 toys for the price of 5, equivalent to about a 44.4% discount.
Hence, the correct answer is A.
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