Homework Help: math

Posted by Michael on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 9:34pm.

In a mayor's race of three candidates, Isaac received 4,000 votes, Benoit received 6000 votes and Rene received 1/3 of the votes. What was the total number of votes cast in the election?

Can anyone explain this. It seems like info is missing!

math - MathMate, Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 10:02pm
There are only three candidates.
Isaac 4000 votes
Benoit 6000 votes
Rene 1/3 of all the votes.

Therefore Isaac and Benoit together got (1-1/3)=2/3 of all the votes.
Total number of votes =(4000+6000)/(2/3)
=?

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