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Miranda missed 5

questions on a quiz. She missed one-fourth of all the questions on the quiz. Which equation could you solve to get the number of questions, q,
that were on the quiz?

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Answer: Let's assume that the total number of questions on the quiz is q. We know that Miranda missed 5 questions, which is equivalent to one-fourth of all the questions on the quiz. We can use this information to set up an equation to solve for q.

Since Miranda missed one-fourth of all the questions, this means that she answered three-fourths of all the questions. The number of questions that Miranda answered correctly is therefore:

3/4 * q

Since she missed 5 questions, we can set up an equation:

3/4 * q + 5 = q

Subtracting 3/4 * q from both sides, we get:

5 = 1/4 * q

Multiplying both sides by 4, we get:

20 = q

Therefore, the number of questions on the quiz is 20. We can check this by verifying that Miranda missed 5 questions, which is one-fourth of 20.

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