<PRE><B>Question 700840</B>
&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Tahoma&quot;&gt;With percentages, most times we are concerned with a 100% total.&lt;br&gt;

In this case, we know that 55% of the 1860 people voted for Candidate A.&lt;br&gt;

This means, if there is only one other Candidate,&lt;br&gt;

that the other 45% of people voted for Candidate B.&lt;br&gt;

100%-55%=45%&lt;br&gt;

Now, since we know there were 1860 total people,&lt;br&gt;

we simply multiply 1860 by 45% to find the actual number of votes for Candidate B:&lt;br&gt;

(45%)*1860=?&lt;br&gt;

(0.45)*1860=837&lt;br&gt;

So 837 people voted for Candidate B, which makes sense in this context.&lt;br&gt;

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