Find the marked price
The marked price of two articles A and B together is Rs. 6000.
The sales tax on article A is 8% and that on article B is 10%.
If on selling both the articles, the total sales tax collected is Rs. 552, find the marked price of each of the articles A and B.
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1 solution
Reading the question, we note that A + B = 6 0 0 0 and 0 . 0 8 A + 0 . 1 B = 5 5 2 . Hence, we can solve the problem using simultaneous equations by multiplying the second equation with − 1 0 and adding both equations: 0 . 2 A = 4 8 0 Now we just need to times the equation by 5 to get A = 2 4 0 0 and therefore B = 3 6 0 0 − 2 4 0 0 and so B = 3 6 0 0 .