In a academic contest, correct answers earn 12 points and incorrect answers lose 5 points. In the final round, school A starts with 165 points and gives the same number of correct and incorrect answers. School b starts with 65 points and gives no incorrect answers and the same number of correct answers as school A. The game ends with the 2 schools as a tie

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answer: the correct answer is -32

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we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!