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Candidates' votes given relative to each other with a known difference: votes or total voters

This type of question, asked 3 times: 14 Jul 2023 S3, 13 Sep 2024 S1, 19 Sep 2024 S3. All 3 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    14 Jul 2023 S3

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    In an election between three candidates, Arjun, Bhaskar and Saral contested for a post. Arjun got 50%50\% votes more than Saral, and Saral got 2%2\% votes less than Bhaskar. The difference between the votes of Bhaskar and Saral is 1296. What is the half of the difference between the votes of Arjun and Bhaskar?

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  2. Question 2

    13 Sep 2024 S1

    62
    In an election between R and S, R gets 110%110\% of the votes of S and beats S by 770 votes. If there were no invalid votes, then the total number of votes polled is:

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  3. Question 3

    19 Sep 2024 S3

    74
    Three candidates X, Y and Z participated in an election. X got 30%30\% more votes than Y, whereas Z got 25%25\% more votes than Y. X also overtook Z by 5000 votes. If 71%71\% of the voters voted and no invalid votes were cast, then what was the total number of voters in the voting list?

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