A test has 120 questions. Each question has 5 options, but only 1 option is correct. If test-takers mark the correct option, they are awarded 1 point. However, if an answer is incorrectly marked, the test-taker loses 0.25 points. No points are awarded or deducted if a question is not attempted. A certain group of test-takers attempted different numbers of questions, but each test-taker still received the same net score of 40. What is the maximum possible number of such test-takers?	Pick
A) 11	B) 13	C) 15	D) 17	E) 19
A correct answers get you 1 point, an incorrect answer gets you MINUS 1/4 point and a skipped question gets you 0 points. Since there are 200 total questions, there are a variety of ways to get a total of 40 points.   Let C be the number of correct answers and let I be the number of incorrect answers.   To get 40 points, a test taker must have at least 40 correct answers. Then C=&gt; 40.   For every correct question above 40, the test taker has 4 incorrect answers.   Then, the I = 4*(C - 40).   Also, I + C &lt;= 120. Thus 5C &lt;= 280 and so C &lt;= 56.   Then 40 &lt;= C &lt;= 56 and C can have 17 possible values.   The answer is 17.
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A test has 120 questions. Each question has 5 options, but only 1 option is correct. If test-takers mark the correct option, they are awarded 1 point. However, if an answer is incorrectly marked, the test-taker loses 0.25 points. No points are awarded or deducted if a question is not attempted. A certain group of test-takers attempted different numbers of questions, but each test-taker still received the same net score of 40. What is the maximum possible number of such test-takers?