Problema Solution

In an election,a candidate got 65% of the total valid votes.8% of the total votes were declared invalid.if the total number of votes-cast were 600000 find the numbers of valid votes polled in favour of the candidate.

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first find 65% of the total votes

600000*.65 = 390000

now subtract 8% since 8% were invalid

so only 92% of those votes were valid

so 390000*.92 = 358800

so 358,800 valid votes were posted in favor of the candidiate