Thread:The Infamous Gollum/@comment-33746708-20180318155448

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To figure out Nate’s actual score, we can use proportions (though it is much easier to just divide 40 by 29), which would be as follows:

Let x be the percentage that Nate got.

29/40 = x/100

By cross-multiplication, we get 40x = 2900.

x = 2900/40

[Note that this is the same as dividing 40 by 29 and multiplying by 100.]

x = 72.5

To find out how many points Nate needed to get 88%, we can also use proportions.

Let x be the number of questions Nate needed to answer correct out of 40 to attain a score of 88%.

x/40 = 88/100

By cross-multiplication, 100x = 40 * 88

100x = 3520

x = 3520/100x = 35.2

Therefore, Nate needed to get at least 36 questions right (meaning that he was an entire 7 questions off in his calculations) to get a score of 88% or above (unless partial credit is given). 