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Dominic answered 43 of the 50 questions on his spelling test correctly. Which decimal represents the fraction of problems he answered incorrectly?Dominic answered 43 of the 50 questions on his spelling test correctly. Which decimal represents the fraction of problems he answered incorrectly?VV

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The answer is 0.14 or 7 over 50

Step-by-step explanation:

First of all, lets first find out the decimal representing how many questions he got correct. So this would would 43/50 otherwise written as 0.86 or 86%. Now in a test score, 100% is the perfect rate so we can subtract 86% from 100% in order to get 14%. Since we are looking for a decimal representative for this problem, then we simply write 14% as 0.14. So to conclude, the decimal representative of the problems that were answered incorrectly is 0.14 or 7 over 50.

User Paul Herber
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Answer: The answer is 0.14.


Step-by-step explanation: Given that there are 50 questions in the spelling test which Dominic has to answer. Also, it is given that Domonic answered 43 questions correctly.

Therefore, the number of questions that he answered incorrectly

= 50 - 43

=7.

So, the fraction of problems that Dominic answered incorrectly is given by


n=(7)/(50)=0.14.

Thus, the required fraction is 0.14.


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