SOLUTION: A total of 96 students vote on two choices for a Field trip. The zoo gets 2 times as many votes as the radio station. How many votes did the zoo get?

Question 1076683: A total of 96 students vote on two choices for a Field trip. The zoo gets 2 times as many votes as the radio station. How many votes did the zoo get?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let's the number of votes the radio station gets be
if the zoo gets times as many votes as the radio station, we know that the zoo gets

if a total of students vote, we have
..............solve for

=>the number of votes the radio station gets
and, the zoo gets votes

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