Question

In the voting for city council precinct 5, only 1/2 of all eligible voters cast votes. what fraction of all eligible voters voted for shelley ? daley ? who received the most votes?
~Will earn medal

Answer 1

please answer

Answer 2

Let x be the TOTAL number of eligible voters.
Only half of these eligible voters actually vote, so the number of actual voters is (x/2).

Shelley gets (1/10)th of the votes of the actual voters, or (1/10)*(x/2).

Simplify this.

Answer 3

I don't understand

Answer 4

Can't read y our table. Copy your original table and paste it.

Tell me, please, what you DO understand, and we'll work from that point onward.

Answer 5

Candidate Fraction of votes rec'd

Shelley 1/10

Daley 2/8

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

Again:

Let x be the number of eligible voters (not all of them vote!)

Since only half of the eligible voters vote, the number who vote is (x/2).

Daley receives 2/8 of the votes actually cast.
In other words, Daley receives (2/8)*(x/2) votes.

\[\frac{ 2 }{ 8 }*\frac{ x }{ 2 }=\frac{ 2x }{ 8 }\]

Answer 8

Please reduce this last result.

Answer 9

1/4

Answer 10

Actually, that'd be x/4, or (1/4)x.

This is the number of votes that Daley actually receives.
How many votes does the other guy receive?

(1/10)*(x/2) = ??

Answer 11

the question says how many VOTERS were there for daley

Answer 12

hello

Answer 13

We found the number of voters who voted for Daley just recently.
Earlier, we found the number who voted for the other person.

How many voters voted for each person? Type them into your table.

Answer 14

Candidate Fraction of votes rec'd Actual number of votes received

Shelley 1/10

Daley 2/8

Answer 15

the question just has that data table

Answer 16

All the answers you need are in our conversation; please go back and look for them. Thanks.

Answer 17

Let x be the TOTAL number of eligible voters.
Only half of these eligible voters actually vote, so the number of actual voters is (x/2).

Shelley gets (1/10)th of the votes of the actual voters, or (1/10)*(x/2).

Answer 18

How many votes does Daley get?

Answer 19

2/8

Answer 20

I don't understand '-'

Answer 21

Daley gets 2/8 of the total number of votes. The total number of votes is x/2.

Multiply these two fractions together to get the number of votes rec'd by Daley.

Answer 22

If you don't understand, please ask questions, so that I may help you get back on track.

Answer 23

you have to find how many people voted for shelly and daley

Answer 24

Yes, and we have done that twice for each person. See above.

What is the total number of votes actually cast? I wrote that out for you several times.

Answer 25

the answer is
shelley : 1/10
dalley : 1/40

Answer 26

I've explained several times that the total number of votes ACTUALLY CAST is x/2, where x is the number of eligible voters:

1) The total number of votes is x/2.

2) Let x be the TOTAL number of eligible voters.
Only half of these eligible voters actually vote, so the number of actual voters is (x/2).

3) Since only half of the eligible voters vote, the number who vote is (x/2).

If Daley gets 2/8 of the total number of votes, he gets \[\frac{ 2 }{ 8 }*\frac{ x }{ 2 },~or \frac{ x }{ 4 },\] votes.

I am sorry you find this difficult and frustrating. i do ask you to stick with this, as well as to ask questions if I say things that you don't understand.

Answer 27

I am in 5th grade

Answer 28

I understand. As before, I'm sorry this topic has been difficult for you. Still, I believe you can understand it.

We are using Algebra, and normally, Algebra is taught in the 8th or 9th grades.

Answer 29

I got 5 voters for shelley and 1/8 for daley

Answer 30

Let's change the approach.

Suppose that there are x eligible voters, and that ALL of them vote.

Shelley gets one tenth of the votes, or \[\frac{ x }{ 10 }~votes.\]

Answer 31

does that make sense to you?

Answer 32

we are talking about voters

Answer 33

True, but we're also talking about how many votes each candidate receives.

Let me try this: Suppose I tell you that there are 100 eligible voters. Suppose that all of them vote. Shelley gets one-tenth of the votes. How many votes does he get?

Answer 34

we know how many votes

Answer 35

Yes, we do, because we know that (1/10)th of the 100 voters voted for Shelley: thus, he got one-tenth, or 10, of the total 100 votes cast.

\[\frac{ 1 }{ 10 }100=10\]

Answer 36

1/2 voters in all

Answer 37

Again, suppose there are 100 eligible voters and that all of them vote.

Daley gets two-eighths of these votes. How many votes does Daley get?
(Multipy 100 by two-eighths.)

Answer 38

25

Answer 39

that's right!

So, if there are 100 eligible voters and all of them vote,

Daley gets 25 votes and Shelley gets (1/10)(100), or 10, votes.

OK with that?

Answer 40

shelley
10
daley
25

Answer 41

that's right!

Now, suppose that only half of the 100 eligible voters actually vote.

Then Shelley would receive only 1/2 of 10 votes, or 5 votes.

Daley would have rec'd half of 25, or about 13 votes.

OK?