SOLUTION: If i made a 84% on my test and got 8 questions wrong, how many questions were on the test?

Question 714698: If i made a 84% on my test and got 8 questions wrong, how many questions were on the test?
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The 84% represents the percent you got right. If you got 84% right, what percent did you get wrong? Answer: 100-84 = 16%

We needed to find the 16% because we know how many we got wrong and we can only use that number with the percent wrong to solve the problem. We can set up a proportion:

Solving this we should find that x = 50. So if 8 wrong is 16%, then 50 is 100% (or the whole test. So there are 50 questions on the entire test.
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