Question

In a class test containing 15 questions, 5 marks are awarded for every correct answer and -2 marks
are awarded for every incorrect answer and 0 for questions not attempted.
(i) Sumit gets 10 correct and 5 incorrect answers. What is his total score?
(ii) Ravi attempted only 8 questions of which only 5 are correct. What is his total score

Answer 1

$(10 \times 5)-(2 \times 5)</p><p> \\ =50-10</p><p> \\ =40$

$</p><p>(10 \times 5)-[2 \times (8-5)]+(15-8) \times 0</p><p> \\ =50-(2 \times 3)+0</p><p> \\ =50-6+0</p><p> \\ =44$