9. In an examination, 95% of the total examinees passed. If the number of failures was 36, how
many
examinees were there?
(a) 540
(b) 680
(c) 720
(d) 810
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For our ease, let us consider the total number of examinees as x.
95% x students have passed, means that 5%x students have failed.
Therefore 5x/100 students are failures which is equal to 36.
On simplification, 5x= 3600
x= 3600/5=720 examinees in total (c)
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