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

Answer 1

to get the total votes y, multiply every term by 4

Answer 2

can u message me and tell me the answer please cuz I don't get it

Answer 3

do you have problem to understand how they got the formula?

x - 62,500 = 0.25y

Answer 4

no I need the answer please

Answer 5

x - 62,500 = 0.25y
Maya - 62,500 = sally

ok so maya has 62,500 more votes than Sally

sally has 25% of the votes
Maya has 75% of the votes
Maya has 62,500 votes more
Maya has 50% more

62,500 ~50%

Maya=75% -62,500=50% = 25%

total votes y=62,500 * 2 = 125000 =100%


Maya had 0.75 x 125000 =93750 votes
Sally had 0.25 x 125000 = 31250 votes

let's check:
Maya - 62,500 = Sally
93750 - 62,500 = Sally
93750 - 62,500 = 31250
31250 = 31250.

Answer 6

x - 62,500 = 0.25y
x = 0.75 y <-- this one was added because they are finalists!
in a final 25% sally plus Maya must be 100%
so Maya is 75% !

0.75 y - 62,500 = 0.25y ---subtract 0.25 y from both sides
0.5 y -62,500 = 0 ---add 62,500
.5 y = 62,500 ---multiply by 2
y = 125,000