SOLUTION: If a student answered 86 exam questions correctly out of 100, what fraction and what percentage of questions did the student answer incorrectly? Choose two answers.

Question 1093153: If a student answered 86 exam questions correctly out of 100, what fraction and what percentage of questions did the student answer incorrectly? Choose two answers.
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The number correct was 86 so the number incorrect was 100-86 = 14.
is the fraction of incorrect answers and that is equivalent to %
[ "Percent" just means "per 100," so a percentage is just an expression of how many per 100. In this problem the denominator was conveniently already equal to 100. ]
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