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Percentiles and Box Plots · Challenge problem

A student's percentile rank in a group is the percent of the group (including the student) who scored strictly lower. Sam is in class A, where 2828 of the 4040 students scored lower than Sam. Sam's score is also higher than exactly 80%80\% of the students in class B. When the two classes are combined, Sam's percentile rank is 7676. How many students are in class B?