SOLUTION: Jamie answered 12 questions correct on a test. If Jamie answered 80% of the questions correct, how many questions were on the test

SOLUTION: Jamie answered 12 questions correct on a test. If Jamie answered 80% of the questions correct, how many questions were on the test

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Question 1007665: Jamie answered 12 questions correct on a test. If Jamie answered 80% of the questions correct, how many questions were on the test
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
80% of the total number of questions (call it x) is 12 correct...thus we can write
.8x = 12
now divide by .8 and get
x = 12 / .8 = 15 total questions
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