Jack and jill compared their results on their last math test. Jack had 40 correct answers and Jill had 50 correct answers. there were 32 questions that both had correct and 6 they both had wrong. How many questions were on the test?

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anonymous · Answer

It sounds almost too simple to be true, 
but could the answer be 56? 

56 questions on the test, 

where Jill got 50 right, and 6 wrong. 

And Jack got 40 right, and 16 wrong. 

Ask the people in the Mathematics section. 

They could probably give you an equation to solve this problem.