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03 Jul 2025, 09:45
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In a company-wide vote between two project proposals, each employee voted for exactly one proposal. Proposal X received 20% of the total votes more than Proposal Y. If Proposal Y received 70 votes, by how many votes did it lose?
Proposals be X and Y
Let total votes be "T"
Votes recieved by proposal Y be "y"
X recieved 20% of T more than Y
X=0.2T+Y
Total T=0.2T+Y+Y
2Y=0.8T
Y=70. (from the question)
T=175
Question is asking for the number of votes by which Y lose
X=0.2*175+70=105
Thus Y lost the election by 35 Votes (X-Y=105-70=35)
Proposals be X and Y
Let total votes be "T"
Votes recieved by proposal Y be "y"
X recieved 20% of T more than Y
X=0.2T+Y
Total T=0.2T+Y+Y
2Y=0.8T
Y=70. (from the question)
T=175
Question is asking for the number of votes by which Y lose
X=0.2*175+70=105
Thus Y lost the election by 35 Votes (X-Y=105-70=35)
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03 Jul 2025, 09:52
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let a be the total no of people.
let x and y be the no of votes the X and Y proposals recieved respectively
as per question x=20a/100+y
each person can cast only one vote so x+y=a
a/5+y+y=a
4a/5=2y=2*70=140
a= 5*170/4=700/4=175
No of votes x recieved=175-70=105
y lost by 105-70 votes i.e, 35 votes
let x and y be the no of votes the X and Y proposals recieved respectively
as per question x=20a/100+y
each person can cast only one vote so x+y=a
a/5+y+y=a
4a/5=2y=2*70=140
a= 5*170/4=700/4=175
No of votes x recieved=175-70=105
y lost by 105-70 votes i.e, 35 votes
03 Jul 2025, 09:53
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Y received 70 votes. X received 20 percent more than Y. So in 105, 70 is coming out to 40 percent whereas Y has 60 percent with 105. The other points difference is more than 20 percent. Hence option D is the answer.
