Jose correctly answered 80% of the questions on a language arts quiz. If he answered 16 questions correctly , how many questions were on the language arts quiz?

Question

Find how many questions were on the quiz

Answer 1

Okay so the way we look at this problem would be let there be x questions on  quiz then

 

16 / x * 100 = 80

 

so x is

 

1600 / 80 = 20

 

so our x = 20 and the number of questions therefore is 20