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How many questions are incorrect with a score of 83 on a 80- question test?
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document.write( "Since the student got 83% correct, the student got 17% incorrect.\r\n" );
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document.write( "17% of 80 is 13.6 incorrect.  So there could have been some partial credit\r\n" );
document.write( "given or else, what is most likely, the score was rounded off.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If 13 questions were incorrect, the score would be 83.75 and if\r\n" );
document.write( "14 were incorrect it would be 82.5.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If the teacher rounds up with .5 or more, the student missed 14 questions.\r\n" );
document.write( "But if the teacher always rounds down, the student missed 13 questions.\r\n" );
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