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What sentence represents the number of test questions in the problem below? A test is worth 80 points. Multiple-choice questions are worth 2 points, and short-answer questions are worth 4 points. If the test has 25 questions, how many multiple-choice questions are there?

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The first thing we must do for this case is to define variables.
We have then:
x = Multiple-choice questions
y = short-answer questions
We write the following system of equations:
2x + 4y = 80
x + y = 25
Solving the system of equations we have:
x = 10
y = 15
Answer:
there are 10 multiple-choice questions
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