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Question 11

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To pass an exam, a candidate needs 36% of the maximum marks. Gurpreet scored 198 marks and failed by 18 marks. What are the maximum marks?

450Correct answerYour answer500Correct answerYour answer550Correct answerYour answer600Correct answerYour answer

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Pass mark = $198 + 18 = 216$ .
36% of maximum = 216, so maximum = $\frac{216}{36} \times 100 = 600$ .

Worth noting

"Failed by 18" means he needed 18 MORE, so add. Using 198 alone gives 550; subtracting 18 gives 450.

Concept: Pass-mark problems: finding the whole from a percentage
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