At the north fair you earn 9 points for each bull's eye you hit, but you lose 7 points for each miss. after 25 tries, linda has 33 points. how many hits did she have?

If she'd had 25 hits, her score would have been 225. Every miss reduces this by 16. The total reduction was 225 - 33 (i.e., 192), which represents 192/16 (12) misses. She had 13 hits, scoring 117 but 12 misses, losing 84. Net score 117 - 84 = 3.03