In a Quiz competition, there are 20 questions.5 marks are awarded for a correct answer and 2 marks are deducted for a wrong answer or no response.If the 'Happy team'scores 51 marks at the end of the competition,how many correct answers does the team get?
Let a be the number of correct answers the team gets, then the number of wrong answers or no response will be ( 20 – a ) 5a + (-2) . ( 20 – a ) = 515a – 40 + 2a = 517a = 91a = 13 The team gets 13 correct answers.