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at an election 4% of the votes casts are invalid.a candidate gets 55% of the valid votes and wins the election by 240 votes.find the total number
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at an election 4% of the votes casts are invalid.a candidate gets 55% of the valid votes and wins the election by 240 votes.find the total number
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at an election 4% of the votes casts are invalid.a candidate gets 55% of the valid votes and wins the election by 240 votes.find the total number of votes cast Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let x be the total votes, we then know
.14x + .55x + .31x is the total number of votes, we also know
.55x = .31x + 240
.24x = 240
x = 240 / .24 = 1000
total number of votes is 1000
