ethan took a quiz with 15 questions. if he answered 3/5 of the questions correctly, how many did he get wrong?

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I love this question! It requires careful reading! There are multiple ways to get the right answer, so here are a couple! The sentence tells us the fraction of the questions he got RIGHT! To find this out you must multiply 3/5 by the total number of questions (3/5 x 15 = 9 correct questions). You then can subtract the 9 questions from the 15 total to find out the number that were INCORRECT/WRONG. 15 - 9 = 6 incorrect questions. Another strategy would be to find the fraction of questions Ethan missed, which is one minus the fraction he got RIGHT. 1 - 3/5 or 3/5 + ___ = 1 (5/5). He missed 2/5 of the questions, so you can multiply 2/5 by the total to get (2/5 x 15 = 6) 6 incorrect answers. Hope this helps!

valentina_108 [34]3 years ago

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$\frac{15}{1} * \frac{3}{5} = \frac{45}{5} = 9 
 



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15-9= 6
Ethan got six questions wrong.

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