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A diverse group of students are captured in a classroom setting. Some of them are seated at their desks, radiating joy. There's a Caucasian male student, joyously tossing his notebook in the air, a South Asian female student grinning with delight while scribbling in her textbook, and a black female student laughing heartily at a joke shared among her classmates. There are also students who look disappointed. An Hispanic male student scrunches his face, visibly upset over a test score, a Middle-Eastern male student looks crestfallen, staring down at his textbook, and a white female student sighs deeply, her shoulders slumped.

In an examination, 1/5 of the candidates failed. It is known that 240 candidates passed. How many candidates took the examination

1/5 means 20%

Percentage of passed student is 100-20= 80%
So, total number of students attended the exam = 240*100/80= 300

No. Of students failed is 60 that is 1/5 of 300.

Thank you

(1 - 1/5)x = 240

Solve for x.

80percentage

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If 240 candidates passed the examination, and this represents 80% of the total number of candidates, then:

240 = 0.8 * x

Solving for x, we get:

x = 240 / 0.8
x = 300

So, the total number of candidates who took the examination is 300.

To find out how many candidates took the examination, we need to use the information given.

Let's assume the number of candidates who took the examination is x.

It is given that 1/5 of the candidates failed, which means 4/5 of the candidates passed.

We are also given that 240 candidates passed.

So, we can set up the equation:

4/5 * x = 240

To solve for x, we need to isolate it on one side of the equation. We can do this by multiplying both sides of the equation by 5/4 (the reciprocal of 4/5):

(4/5 * x) * (5/4) = 240 * (5/4)

On the left side, the 5/4 cancels out the 4/5, leaving us with just x:

x = 240 * (5/4)

Now, we can solve the equation:

x = 300

Therefore, 300 candidates took the examination.