Question

Jake answers questions in an online Olympic trivia quiz. In the quiz, he loses $3$ points when he gives an incorrect answer. If total point lost by him is $33,$ then find the number of incorrect answers?

• A. $10$
• B. $11$
• C. $12$
• D. $13$

Answer 1

The correct option is B $11$

To find the number of incorrect answers in the Olympic trivia quiz, we need to divide the total points lost $\left(33\right)$ by the number of points lost per wrong answer $\left(3\right)$.
$\frac{-33}{-3}=11$.
N.B.: Negative signs in numerator and denominator denote the loosing of the points, and as both integers have same sign, the sign of the answer is positive.