Problema Solution
in an election, one of the candidate got 45% of the votes and this was 20 votes less than that of the other candidate. how many votes did the winner get?
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Let 'x' represent the total number of votes.
We will assume that there are only 2 candidate.
The winning candidate won 55% of the votes or 0.55x.
The losing won 45% or 0.45x.
0.45x = 0.55x - 20
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x = 200
0.55*200 = 110
The winner got 110 votes.