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Revision as of 11:50, 25 February 2022
Problem
Alicia, Brenda, and Colby were the candidates in a recent election for student president. The pie chart below shows how the votes were distributed among the three candidates. If Brenda received 36 votes, then how many votes were cast all together?
Solution 1
Let be the total amount of votes casted. From the chart, Brenda received
of the votes and had
votes. We can express this relationship as
. Solving for
, we get
Solution 2
We're being asked for the total number of votes cast -- that represents of the total number of votes. Brenda received
votes, which is
of the total number of votes. Multiplying
by
we get the total number of votes, which is
Video Solution
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See Also
2017 AMC 8 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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