Homework Help: MATH

Posted by Kelvin on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 6:01pm.

Maya and Sally were the two finalists in a singing competition. The person with the most votes from the audience was chosen as the winner. Sally received 25% of the total votes and lost by 62,500 votes. No person in the audience was allowed to vote more than once. The equation below represents this situation, where y is the total number of votes cast and x is the number of votes Maya received.

x - 62,500 = 0.25y

If a total of 125,000 people voted, how many votes did Maya receive?

MATH - Reiny, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 7:03pm
replace y with 125000 and solve for x

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