Practicing Success
In an election between 2 candidates, the winning candidate got 55% of the valid votes. 5% of the total votes were invalid. If the total number of votes polled were 10000, then how many votes were obtained by the losing candidate? |
4425 4625 4275 4550 |
4275 |
Let total number of votes = 10000 Invalid votes = 5% of 10000 = 500 Valid votes = 10000 - 500 = 9500 Votes of winner candidate = 55% of 9500 = 5225 Votes of looser candidate = 9500 - 5225 = 4275 |