SOLUTION: In a town election, the winning candidate had 220 more votes than the loser.If 810 votes were cast in all,how many votes did each candidate reveieve?
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Question 45167: In a town election, the winning candidate had 220 more votes than the loser.If 810 votes were cast in all,how many votes did each candidate reveieve? Answer by aaaaaaaa(138) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Variable assigning:
Winning candidate had w votes.
Losing candidate had w-220 votes (since the winning candidate had 220 more votes than he had)
Equation forming:
Now, for the solving!
So, the winning candidate had 515 of the 810 votes. The rest go for the losing one. It's a fairly easy subtraction:
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