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Please help me!!!!

You miss 3 out of 10 questions on a science quiz and 4 out of 15 questions on a math quiz. Which quiz has a higher percent of correct anwsers.




I did 3/10 so 0.3 and 4/15 which is 0.266... so would it be the science quiz???
Please explain

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Your process is close!

Since 3/10 and 4/15 is the amount you missed you have to subtract that by 1.

1 - 0.3 = 0.70
1 - 0.26 = 0.74

So, you scored higher on the math quiz.

Hope this helps!
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