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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

For the consumer, a single discount of is more advantageous than any of the following discounts: (1) two successive discounts (2) three successive discounts (3) a discount followed by a discount What is the smallest possible positive integer value of ?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
Let the original price be . Then, for option , the discounted price is . For option , the discounted price is . Finally, for option , the discounted price is . Therefore, must be greater than . It follows must be greater than . We multiply this by to get the percent value, and then round up because is the smallest integer that provides a greater discount than , leaving us with the answer of
Final answer
C