SOLUTION: Percentage: I don't understand this solution: In a recent town election,1860 people voted for either candidate A or candidate B for the position of supervisor. If candidate A recei

Question 700840: Percentage: I don't understand this solution: In a recent town election,1860 people voted for either candidate A or candidate B for the position of supervisor. If candidate A received 55% of the votes, how many votes did candidate B recieve?
Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

With percentages, most times we are concerned with a 100% total.

In this case, we know that 55% of the 1860 people voted for Candidate A.

This means, if there is only one other Candidate,

that the other 45% of people voted for Candidate B.

100%-55%=45%

Now, since we know there were 1860 total people,

we simply multiply 1860 by 45% to find the actual number of votes for Candidate B:

(45%)*1860=?

(0.45)*1860=837

So 837 people voted for Candidate B, which makes sense in this context.

I hope this helps! Keep practicing! :)

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