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?

Question

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?

anonymous · Answer

x - 62,500 = 0.25y
x-62,500=0.25*125,000

anonymous · Answer

Solve for x

anonymous · Answer

A store offers a 15% discount on all items in the store during a sale. All store employees get an additional 10% employee discount. In the equation below, C represents the cost of an item for an employee including tax, and x represents the original price of the item.

C = 0.765x + 0.06(0.765x)

Chris is an employee at the store. He plans to buy a coat during the sale. The price of the coat before the discount is $100. How much will Chris pay for the coat during the sale? 

Numerical Answers Expected!

anonymous · Answer

Did u solve for x?

anonymous · Answer

I dont know hwo to.. can you explain it?

anonymous · Answer

x - 62,500 = 0.25y
x-62500=0.25*125000
x=31250+62500
x=93750

anonymous · Answer

got it?

anonymous · Answer

not reaslly haha
I'm so dumb when it comes to math

anonymous · Answer

I guess u need to take extra algebra class