Given a math problem with context and a question and 5 answer choices, the task is to provide the correct answer choice based on the problem. You must choose one of the given answer choices by letter: a, b, c, d, or e; anything else is invalid.

Problem: a merchant sells an item at a 20 % discount, but still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. what percent of the cost would the gross profit on the item have been if it had been sold without the discount ?
Options: a. 20 %, b. 40 %, c. 50 %, d. 60 %, e. 75 %
c

Problem: the mean of 50 observations is 200. but later he found that there is decrements of 34 from each observations. what is the the updated mean is ?
Options: a. 165, b. 166, c. 190, d. 198, e. 199
b

Problem: a multiple choice test consists of 4 questions, and each question has 5 answer choices. in how many ways can the test be completed if every question is unanswered ?
Options: a. 24, b. 120, c. 625, d. 720, e. 1024

c