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The written portion of bens driving test had 40 questions Ben correctly answered 12 more questions than he missed how many questions did Ben missed. ?!

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We wil name x to the amount of correctly answered questions. Then, we get:


(x-12)+x=40
2x-12=40
2x=40+12
2x=52
x=(52)/(2)
x=26

Ben had 26 correct answers, so he missed 40-26= 14.

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