2017 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 14
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Problem 14
Chloe and Zoe are both students in Ms. Demeanor's math class. Last night they each solved half of the problems in their homework assignment alone and then solved the other half together. Chloe had correct answers to only of the problems she solved alone, but overall
of her answers were correct. Zoe had correct answers to
of the problems she solved alone. What was Zoe's overall percentage of correct answers?
Solution 1
Let the number of questions that they solved alone be . Let the percentage of problems they correctly solve together be
%.
As given,
.
Hence, .
Zoe got problems right out of
. Therefore, Zoe got
percent of the problems correct.
Solution 2
Assume the total amount of problems is per half homework assignment, since we are dealing with percentages, and not values. Then, we know that Chloe got
problems correct by herself, and got
problems correct overall. We also know that Zoe had
problems she did correct alone. We can see that the total amount of correct problems Chloe had when Zoe and she did the homework together is
, which is the total amount of problems she got correct, subtracted by the number of correct problems she did alone. Therefore Zoe has
problems out of
problems correct. This is
percent.
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