1950 AHSME Problems/Problem 22
Problem
Successive discounts of 
and 
are equivalent to a single discount of:
Solution
Without loss of generality, assume something costed 
dollars. Then with each successive discount, it would cost 
dollars, then 
dollars. This amounts to a total of 
dollars off, so the single discount would be 
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