2014 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 11
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 possible positive integer value of 
?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \ 27\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 28\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 29\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 31\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 33$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Solution
Let the price be 
. Then, for option 
, the discounted price is 
. For option 
, the discounted price is 
. Finally, for option 
, the discounted price is 
. Therefore, the discount must be greater than 
. Thus, the discount 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 
See Also
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