HELP.
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

HELP.
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

you are looking for x the x vaule is how many votes maya received..

anonymous · Answer

total votes are 125000 from this you can calculate the value of sally votes which is 25% of total. and maya votes is sum of sally votes and 62500

anonymous · Answer

0.25y is sally votes.  y is 125000.

anonymous · Answer

right!

anonymous · Answer

put y value in equation and calculate the value of x

anonymous · Answer

i  got 93750 for my answer...

anonymous · Answer

yes.