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? Do not enter comma for placeholder values.

i don't want the answer out of the blue i want it by step

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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? Do not enter comma for placeholder values.



i don't want the answer out of the blue i want it by step

anonymous · Answer

first calculate the amount of votes sally received..can u do that..?

driftracer305 · Answer

93,750.................

k so y= 125,000 it is total # of people voting......
so multiply it by 0.25......
now bring the remaining 62,500 to the other side   and it to the previous result......
since x is how many votes maya received./.......it is  93750

anonymous · Answer

Thanks took me a while to understand basically i did what you said and added the last two numbers and i did get 93750 thank you so much both of you ! :) but i did want to solve it myself anyways thank u!

driftracer305 · Answer

sorry...............but glad to help........i'll keep that in mind next time..  :D

driftracer305 · Answer

any more dude?