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I don’t understand how to solve this Write a proportion to find how many points x a student needs to score on a test worth 50 points to get
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I don’t understand how to solve this Write a proportion to find how many points x a student needs to score on a test worth 50 points to get a test score of 40%.
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2021-08-29T17:34:13+00:00
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Answer: 20
Step-by-step explanation:
Total worth of test = 50
Percentage of test score to be gotten = 40%
Then , the total point the student need to get to get 40% will be:
= x/50 = 40%
x/50 = 40/100
x/50 = 0.4
Cross multiply
x = 50 × 0.4
x = 20
The student needs to score 20 points