SOLUTION: An exam will have 20 questions and be worth a total of 100 points. There will be a true/false section where the questions are worth 3 points each and a short essay section where th

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Question 772263: An exam will have 20 questions and be worth a total of 100 points. There will be a true/false section where the questions are worth 3 points each and a short essay section where the questions will be worth 11 points each. How many essay questions will there be on the essay?
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Let represent the number of true/false questions and represent the number of essay questions.

There are 20 questions total, so:



The T/F questions are worth 3 points each so all of the T/F questions are worth points. Likewise the essay questions are worth 11 points each, so all of the essay questions are worth points. And there are 100 total points.



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