Source: Princeton Review
All votes cast in a recent presidential election were for either the incumbent or the challenger. The challenger received 5.4 million votes and the incumbent received 5million. If after a recount of the votes and the addition of previously uncounted absentee ballots, the incumbent had 5.2 million votes while the challenger had 5.4million, then the percentage of the total number of votes that were for the challenger
A. decreased by approximately 10%
B. decreased approximately 1%
C. neither increased nor decreased
D. increased approximately 1%
E. increased approximately 2%
The OA is B.
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All numbers presented below are in million votes.BTGmoderatorLU wrote:Source: Princeton Review
All votes cast in a recent presidential election were for either the incumbent or the challenger. The challenger received 5.4 million votes and the incumbent received 5million. If after a recount of the votes and the addition of previously uncounted absentee ballots, the incumbent had 5.2 million votes while the challenger had 5.4million, then the percentage of the total number of votes that were for the challenger
A. decreased by approximately 10%
B. decreased approximately 1%
C. neither increased nor decreased
D. increased approximately 1%
E. increased approximately 2%
\[{\text{I}}{\text{.}}\,\,\left( {{\text{before}}} \right)\,\,{\text{:}}\,\,\,\frac{{{\text{challenger}}}}{{{\text{total}}}} = \frac{{5.4}}{{5.4 + 5}} = \frac{{54}}{{104}} = \frac{{27}}{{52}}\]
\[{\text{II}}{\text{.}}\,\,\left( {{\text{after}}} \right)\,\,{\text{:}}\,\,\,\frac{{{\text{challenger}}}}{{{\text{total}}}} = \frac{{5.4}}{{5.4 + 5.2}} = \frac{{54}}{{106}} = \frac{{27}}{{53}}\]
\[? = \Delta \% \left( {{\text{I}} \to {\text{II}}} \right) = \frac{{\frac{{27}}{{53}} - \frac{{27}}{{52}}}}{{\frac{{27}}{{52}}}} = \frac{{52}}{{53}} - 1 = - \frac{1}{{53}}\,\,\,\mathop \Rightarrow \limits^{{\text{alt}}{\text{.}}\,\,{\text{choices}}} \,\,\,\left( B \right)\]
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The percent of the total number of votes for the challenger before the absentee ballots is 5.4/(5.4 + 5) = 5.4/10.4 ≈ 51.9%.BTGmoderatorLU wrote:Source: Princeton Review
All votes cast in a recent presidential election were for either the incumbent or the challenger. The challenger received 5.4 million votes and the incumbent received 5million. If after a recount of the votes and the addition of previously uncounted absentee ballots, the incumbent had 5.2 million votes while the challenger had 5.4million, then the percentage of the total number of votes that were for the challenger
A. decreased by approximately 10%
B. decreased approximately 1%
C. neither increased nor decreased
D. increased approximately 1%
E. increased approximately 2%
The percent of the total number of votes for the challenger after the absentee ballots is 5.4/(5.4 + 5.2) = 5.4/10.6 ≈ 50.9%.
Therefore, the percent of the total number of votes for challenger decreased approximately 1%.
Answer: B
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