1959 AHSME Problems/Problem 29

Problem

On a examination of $n$ questions a student answers correctly $15$ of the first $20$ . Of the remaining questions he answers one third correctly. All the questions have the same credit. If the student's mark is 50%, how many different values of $n$ can there be? $\textbf{(A)}\ 4 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 3\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 2\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 1\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{the problem cannot be solved}$

Solution

To calculate the student's score in terms of $n$ , you can write the following equation:

$\frac{\frac{n-20}{3} + 15}{n} = \frac{1}{2}$ . Simplify to get $n=50$ , so there is $\boxed{\textbf{(D) }1}$ solution.

~Goldroman

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