Question

in an election, the winning candidate received 48000 votes which represented 60percent of the electorate. the only other candidate secured votes from 25percent of the electorate. calculate 1.the number of electorate 2.the number of people who did not cast votes

Answer 1

Solution Let first candidate be A and other candidate be B Given, A received 60% of votesih is 48000 votes Let x be the total number of electorate then 60% of x =48000 x = (48000*100)/60 x=80000 second candidate got 25% of votes , then, People who didn't vote = 100%-60%-25% = 15% So, Number of people who didnt vote = 15% of 80000 =12000

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