Given:
The candidate who receives 35% of the votes is defeated by 15,900 votes.
Solution:
Let the total number of votes polled be V.
The candidate who gets 35% of the votes has 35% of V, i.e., 0.35V.
The other candidate gets 65% of the votes, i.e., 0.65V.
The difference in votes between the two candidates is 15,900 votes.
Difference in votes = 0.65V - 0.35V = 15,900
0.30V=15,900
V =
Thus, the total number of votes polled is 53,000.
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In an election between two candidates A and B, 15% of the voters did not cast their votes, 20% of the votes cast were declared invalid. The winning candidate got 8262 votes, which were 54% of the total valid votes.
Statement I: The candidate who was defeated got votes from 31.28% of the total voters in the list.
Statement II: The number of valid votes was 15500.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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