Practicing Success
In an election between two candidates, 15% of the voters did not cast their votes and 10% of the votes polled were found invalid. The successful candidate got 55% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 6120 votes. The number of voters enrolled on the voters list was: |
70000 80000 72000 75000 |
80000 |
85% = \(\frac{17}{20}\) & 90% = \(\frac{9}{10}\) Let the initial votes be 100x ( 55% - 45% ) of valid votes = 6120 10% of valid votes = 6120 Total valid votes = 6120 ATQ, 100x ×\(\frac{17}{20}\) × \(\frac{9}{10}\) × \(\frac{1}{10}\) = 6120 |