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Passage: The following paragraph gives information about four students (A, B, C and D) who have attempted English exams. There are two types of questions: short questions and long questions. Short questions section: I. Each question is of 5 marks. II. Candidates have to attempt at least 6 out of every 7 questions. Long questions section: I. Each question is of 10 marks. II. Candidates have to attempt at least 7 out of every 9 questions. Note: 0.5 marks will be deducted for each spelling error and 0.75 marks will be deducted if a whole word is missed. In this exam, there are a total of 42 short and 18 long questions. B corrects 14 long questions and obtained 131 marks, whereas he obtained 175 marks in the short section. Total marks obtained by A in short questions is 160 by attempting 38 questions. C attempted all the short questions and corrects as twice as the number of questions correct in the long section and got 150.5 marks in the long questions. D answered correctly 15 long questions and the ratio of spelling errors in long to short section is 3:4. Question: If A did 25% more spelling mistakes in long questions than in short questions, corrected 16 long questions, and obtained 135 marks in them, then how many questions are wrong in the short section?
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Correct answer: 3
Solution
For long questions, 16 correct answers give 160 marks before deductions. Since the final score is 135, total deduction is 25 marks, which corresponds to a certain number of errors. Using the condition that long mistakes are 25% more than short mistakes, the number of wrong questions in the short section comes out to 3.
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