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A school has set different minimum qualifying marks in an exam Updated on: 30 Aug 2021, 07:26
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A school has set different minimum qualifying marks in an exam for different groups of students. Students enrolled in arts and science classes must achieve 30% and 45% of total marks respectively. A student enrolled in a science class obtained 280 marks but failed to qualify by 80 marks. A student enrolled in an arts class scored 108 marks. How many more marks does the arts student need to obtain in order to qualify?

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(B) 124

(C) 132

(D) 140

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total maximum marks is same for all subjects
so Max marks science * 45/100 = 360 ; max marks = 800
so for arts passing marks ; 800* 30% ; 240
student has scored 108 marks i.e 132 short of passing
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A school has set different minimum qualifying marks in an exam for different groups of students. Students enrolled in arts and science classes must achieve 30% and 45% of total marks respectively. A student enrolled in a science class obtained 280 marks but failed to qualify by 80 marks. A student enrolled in an arts class scored 108 marks. How many more marks does the arts student need to obtain compared to the science student in order to qualify?

(A) 112

(B) 124

(C) 132

(D) 140

(E) 164
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A school has set different minimum qualifying marks in an exam 30 Aug 2021, 06:27
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total maximum marks is same for all subjects
so Max marks science * 45/100 = 360 ; max marks = 800
so for arts passing marks ; 800* 30% ; 240
student has scored 108 marks i.e 132 short of passing
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A school has set different minimum qualifying marks in an exam for different groups of students. Students enrolled in arts and science classes must achieve 30% and 45% of total marks respectively. A student enrolled in a science class obtained 280 marks but failed to qualify by 80 marks. A student enrolled in an arts class scored 108 marks. How many more marks does the arts student need to obtain compared to the science student in order to qualify?

(A) 112

(B) 124

(C) 132

(D) 140

(E) 164
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I just saw this thread and was about to post about that exact issue! When the question asks us "how many more marks does the arts student need to obtain compared to the science student in order to qualify?", the question is ambiguous, but the answer is certainly not "132", the OA here. As worded, the question could either mean "how many more marks does the generic art student need than the generic science student", which either doesn't make sense or would have a negative answer here (you need fewer marks to pass art than to pass science in this question), or it could mean "comparing the two specific students in this question, how many more additional marks must the art student obtain than the science student", and since the art student needs 132 extra marks, and the science student needs 80 additional marks, the answer would be 132 - 80 = 52. That's really the only reasonable way to interpret the question as it's worded.

If the OA is meant to be 132 here, the phrase you highlighted in blue needs to be deleted from the question -- the question then isn't comparing the art student to the science student, but instead is comparing how many marks the art student has to how many the art student needs.
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I just saw this thread and was about to post about that exact issue! When the question asks us "how many more marks does the arts student need to obtain compared to the science student in order to qualify?", the question is ambiguous, but the answer is certainly not "132", the OA here. As worded, the question could either mean "how many more marks does the generic art student need than the generic science student", which either doesn't make sense or would have a negative answer here (you need fewer marks to pass art than to pass science in this question), or it could mean "comparing the two specific students in this question, how many more additional marks must the art student obtain than the science student", and since the art student needs 132 extra marks, and the science student needs 80 additional marks, the answer would be 132 - 80 = 52. That's really the only reasonable way to interpret the question as it's worded.

If the OA is meant to be 132 here, the phrase you highlighted in blue needs to be deleted from the question -- the question then isn't comparing the art student to the science student, but instead is comparing how many marks the art student has to how many the art student needs.
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