SOLUTION: mary got 30% of the test questions wrong. Sam missed twice as many. If there were 60 questions, how many correct answers did sam have?

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Question 1064736: mary got 30% of the test questions wrong. Sam missed twice as many. If there were 60 questions, how many correct answers did sam have?
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Mary missed 30%
Sam missed 60% or 36 questions. He got 24 right.