Quantitative Aptitude Ques 1491
Question: In an election between two candidates one get 65% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 6500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was
Options:
A) 1820
B) 1840
C) 1824
D) 1844
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Answer:
Correct Answer: A
Solution:
- Number of valid votes = 80% of 6500.
$ =\frac{80}{100}\times 6500=5200 $
Valid votes polled by other candidate = 35 % of 5200
$ =\frac{35}{100}\times 5200=1820 $