Election votes as percents: total votes polled or one candidate's votes
This type of question, asked 2 times: 3 Mar 2023 Tier II, 26 Oct 2023 Tier II. All 2 questions below, oldest first.
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Question 1
3 Mar 2023 Tier II
29Two candidates contested an election.One of them got 64% of the votes and won by 434 votes.What was the total number of votes polled?Tap an option to check your answer.
Question 2
26 Oct 2023 Tier II
24Hari, Kamal and Lalit contested an election in which 6050 votes were polled and none of the votes were invalid. Kamal got 42% more votes than the total votes obtained by Hari and Lalit together. If Lalit obtained only 8% of the total polled votes, find the number of votes obtained by Hari.Tap an option to check your answer.