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Aprajita taught some children of slum areas for certain days. Then she organised a test for them in which she awarded one mark for each correct answer and deducted `1/2` mark for each wrong answer. A child answered 80 questions and got 68 marks. How many questions did he answer correctly?

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Number of correctly answers questions = 72.
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