1. A student gets 3 marks for the correct answer and
loses 2 marks for the wrong answer. He wrote
17 question correctly and got 37 marks. How many
questions did he write wrongly?
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Answer:
The answer is 17
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the number of correct sums be x and the number of incorrect ones be y.
Then,according to the question
x+y=24 ....(1)
(he attempted 24 questions in total)
3x−2y=37 ..(2)
(he gets 3 marks for correct sum and loses 2 marks for wrong sum)
Multiplying (1) by 2 and adding it to (2).
2x+2y+3x−2y=48+37
5x=85
x=17
From (1),
17+y=24
y=7
He did 17 correct sums
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