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If Lily got 18 questions right on a 20 questions

test, what percentage of the questions did she
get wrong?

User Waltwood
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2 Answers

6 votes

Answer:

10%

Explanation:

18/20 Questions = 0.9 or 90% she got right

2/20 Questions = 0.1 or 10% she got wrong

User Salomonvh
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6 votes

Answer:

She got 10% of the questions wrong !

Explanation:

To solve this problem I used cross multiplication


(x)/(100)= (18)/(20)

18 x 100 =1800

1800 / 20 = 90

Since they are asking what she got wrong, not what she got right, you just need to subtract.

100% - 90% = 10%

hope this helped !

User Tina CG Hoehr
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