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To calculate:
The votes of all candidates actually receive:
Answer to Problem 23P
The number of the votes obtained by winner is
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
The loser has won:
Calculation:
Assume that the number of the votes for the first person got be
Votes for the first person | Votes for the second person | |
Unswitched condition | ||
Switched condition |
The difference between the numbers of the votes for the two persons during the switched condition is
Use the distributive property:
Subtract
Divide each side to the equation by
The number of the votes obtained by winner is
Put
The number of the votes obtained by loser is
The difference gives
The number of the votes obtained by winner is
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