Question

Two successive discounts of 50% and 50% are followed by two successive increases of 20% and 20%. What single percentage change would produce the same result?
p * (1 - .5) * (1 - .5) * (1 + .2) * (1 + .2) = ?
Is it 64% decrease? Thanks
correct

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