Book Maths Puzzle Logical Reasoning

Make 1000 using 8 8's by using the basic operations as *,%,+,/,-.

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8
8
8
88
888 (+)
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1000
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8888
888 ( _ ) minus operation
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8000 say X
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=> 8000/8 =1000 division operation
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( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 30
This is what you have for equation. The following are the numbers that you can use to fill in the brackets:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

You can repeat the numbers if required. The resulting sum should be 30. A house was sold at a loss of 17% .Had it been sold for Rs. 4800 more,there would have been a gain of 15%.Find the cost price of the house.