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Posted by pat on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:10pm.

In a town election the winning candidate had 220 more votes that the loser. If 810 votes were cst in all, how many votes did each candidate receive?

math - drwls, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:15pm
Let x be the number of votes received by the winner. The loser got x-220.

x + x - 220 = 810
2x = 1030
Divide both sides of the equation by 2 for the answer.

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