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Understand Stacked Discounts

Successive discounts multiply; a second discount applies to the already-discounted price.

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The method

How to use it

  1. Turn each discount into a multiplier.
  2. Multiply multipliers.
  3. Apply the combined multiplier to the original price.
Worked example

See it in action

20% off then 10% off: 0.8×0.9=0.72, so total discount is 28%.

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How to verify it

On $100, price becomes $72.