Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 17, 2018

If Nate got an 88 on any test, his teacher would think the world’s coming to an end!

its only about 72.5 . But there aren’t .5 s on test scores… are there?

What does it really translate to?

It translates to about a 63

What is the worst grade you have had

An 88 would be around 35.

I just rounded up, 30 of 40 = 3/4ths, 75%, so 29 of 40 would be just under that amount. Not exact, exactly, but good enough for my purposes.

Nate, you’re a day late and a dollar short. XD

I guess Nate has problems in math, too.

I can’t figure out the faulty math logic that made Nate think he had an 88% on the science test.

It was clearly a science test, not a math test!

To figure out Nate’s actual score, we can use proportions (though it is much easier to just divide 29 by 40), which would be as follows:

Let x be the percentage that Nate got.

29/40 = x/100

By cross-multiplication, we get 40x = 2900.

x = 2900/40

[Note that this is the same as dividing 29 by 40 and multiplying by 100.]

x = 72.5

To find out how many points Nate needed to get 88%, we can also use proportions.

Let x be the number of questions Nate needed to answer correct out of 40 to attain a score of 88%.

x/40 = 88/100

By cross-multiplication, 100x = 40 * 88

100x = 3520

x = 3520/100x = 35.2

Therefore, Nate needed to get at least 36 questions right (meaning that he was an entire 7 questions off in his calculations) to get a score of 88% or above (unless partial credit is given).

ya

xD

if he got a 29/40 that means it would be like a 73/74

it translates to 72.5, which is still pretty good for him