A student sores 40 in an examination and fails by 26 marks. if the passing percentage is 33 then we will find the maximum marks in the examination.

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Concept- In a given question, a student scores 40 marks in an examination and he/she fails by 26 marks.
Now we will find the maximum marks in the examination and given passing percentage s 33.
So, by using the above data we will be solving the problem.
In the question ,it is given that a student scores 40 marks in an examination .He/she fails by 26 marks.
Passing percentage given=33.
With the help of the above information we will find the maximum marks of examination.
Now, score required to pass in the examination
.40+26=66 marks
It is given that passing marks is 33 percentages of the total marks and with percentage formula we get
33% =

33100

Now, we will multiply total maximum mark with 23 percentage is 66 marks we will get
Total marks ×

\frac{33}{100}

=66[1]
Now by applying the percentage value we will get
Total marks = 66×

33100

= 66 On solving we get
Total marks = 66×

10033

Now we will cancel the terms and multiply the remaining we will get
Total marks = 200
So, we will get the maximum marks in the given examination.
Hence, the correct answer is 1) 200

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