in an election between 2 candidates one got 55% of the total votes, 20% of votes were invalid. if total number of votes were 7500, the number of valid votes that other candidate got was?
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invalid votes 20%
valid votes = 80%
total votes=7500
100 eqquals to 7500
then 1 equals to 75
nd 80( vali votes) quals to 75*80= 6000
i hope you will get this method
Let the candidates be A & B
Total number of invalid votes are =
total number of votes x percent of invalid votes= ( 7500 x 20 ) / 100
= 1500
Total number of valid votes are =
total number of votes-Total number of invalid votes= 7500 - 1500
= 6000
Total number of votes A got are =
total number of valid votes x percent of valid votes A got= ( 6000 x 55)
_______
100
= 3300
Total number of votes B got are=
total number of valid votes-Total number of votes A got= 6000 - 3300
= 2700
The number of valid votes that the other candidate got are = 2700