ruplun wrote:Of the 2500 voters participating in a local election , three times as many voted for candidate A as for Candidate B , and twice as many people voted for Candidate A as for Candidate C.If each voter choose either Candidate a,b or c or abstained, and 300 voters abstained , how many people voted for candidate C?
Please solve
Since 300 people abstained, the number who voted was 2500-300 = 2200.
We could plug in the answers, which would represent the number who voted for C.
Answer choice: C = 600.
Since twice as many voted for A, A = 1200.
Since 3 times as many voted for A as for B, B = 1200/3 = 400.
A + B + C = 1200 + 400 + 600 = 2200. Success!
The correct answer is
600.
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