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How Accurate You are?

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.

When you checked the result, you had scored 125 marks in the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were
correct and wrong ?

How many correct answers?

These should be those numbers! 

  

Analysis Of Your Result


What was the test ?

Let C be the number of correct answers and W be the number of wrong answers.

Since there are 20 question in total,

C + W = 20    .....(1)

and the score 125 must be subtraction of marks obtained for correct answer and marks due to wrong answers.

10C - 5W = 125   .....(2)

Multiplying (1) by 5 and then adding it to (2),

5C + 5W + 10C - 5W = 100 + 125

15C = 225

C = 15.

From (1), W = 20 - C = 20 - 5 = 5.

Hence, your 15 answers are correct while 5 answers are wrong.


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