Read the given information carefully and answer the following questions. Following paragraph shows the information about four students (A,B, C and D) ...

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Read the given information carefully and answer the following questions.
Following paragraph shows the information about four students (A,B, C and D) who have attempted
English exams. There are two types of questions i.e. Shorts questions and Long questions.
Short questions section:

I. Each question is of 5 marks.

II. Candidates have to attempt at least 6 out of every 7 questions.

Long questions section:

I. Each question is of 10 marks.

II. Candidates have to attempt at least 7 out of every 9 questions

Note: 0.5 marks will be deducted for each spelling error and 0.75 marks will be deducted if he forgot to
write a whole word.
In this exam, there are total 42 short and 18 long questions. B corrects 14 long questions and obtained
131 marks whereas he obtained 175 marks in short section. Total marks obtained by A in short questions
is 160 by attempting 38 questions. C attempted all the short questions and corrects as twice as number of
questions correct in long section and got 150.5 marks in the long questions. D answered correctly 15 long
questions and ratio of spelling errors in long to short section is 3:4.

If C did spelling mistakes and whole word mistakes in the ratio of 5:3 in the long question section
then find marks obtained by him in short section if he did no spelling and whole word mistake?

Options

A.

170

B.

150

C.

155

D.

160

E.

180

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