Answer: Lyda wants to score 80% on a test that is worth 50 points. To figure out how many points she needs to accomplish her goal, we can set up a proportion using her desired percentage as the proportion of points she wants to score over the total number of points on the test.
score / total points = percentage / 100
To figure out the number of points Lyda needs to score, we can use the proportion above and cross-multiply:
score * 100 = percentage * total points
We know that percentage=80 and total points =50, so we can substitute these values:
score * 100 = 80 * 50
score = (80*50) / 100 = 40
So Lyda needs to score 40 points to accomplish her goal of 80%.
The proportion would be score / total points = x/100 = percentage/100 = 40/50 = 8/10
It's worth to mention that scoring 80% on a test means she scored 40 points on a test worth 50, the minimum score to pass is 30 so she got a good grade already.
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