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i get 40%

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50% of students’ study science and 30% of science students score more than 80% marks in the exam. If 40% of all students (science + non-science) get more than 80% marks in exam, what percentage of non-science students score less than 80% marks?

A. 30%
B. 40%
C. 50%
D. 60%
E. 70%

i get 40%

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We need the ratio of the values in the yellow boxes, which is 25/50 = 0.5.
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so i am assuming my way is incorrect since i use the direct percentages instead of converting the percentages into number of students like you did?

im assuming to solve these types of questions you always need to assume a total number of students and then work with that?


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50% of students’ study science and 30% of science students score more than 80% marks in the exam. If 40% of all students (science + non-science) get more than 80% marks in exam, what percentage of non-science students score less than 80% marks?

A. 30%
B. 40%
C. 50%
D. 60%
E. 70%

i get 40%

not understanding why

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We need the ratio of the values in the yellow boxes, which is 25/50 = 0.5.
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so i am assuming my way is incorrect since i use the direct percentages instead of converting the percentages into number of students like you did?

im assuming to solve these types of questions you always need to assume a total number of students and then work with that?


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50% of students’ study science and 30% of science students score more than 80% marks in the exam. If 40% of all students (science + non-science) get more than 80% marks in exam, what percentage of non-science students score less than 80% marks?

A. 30%
B. 40%
C. 50%
D. 60%
E. 70%

i get 40%

not understanding why

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We need the ratio of the values in the yellow boxes, which is 25/50 = 0.5.
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No, that's not why your solution was incorrect. We are given that 30% of science students scored above 80%, but you assumed that 30% of the total students scored above 80%. It should be 30% of the science students, which means 30% of 50%, totaling 15% of all students, not 30%.
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