I need to understand how to do the problem and not the answer.

P.S. bobpursley, no offense but I didn't understand what your response meant. That information I already know but I need to know how to do the problem to get 213 as the answer.

Anida won the class election by margin of 5-3. She received 355 votes. How many votes did the other candidates get? Answer:213

1 answer

Another way to solve this problem is to set up a proportion.

5 / 3 = 355 / x

Cross multiply:

5x = 1065
x = 213
Similar Questions
    1. answers icon 0 answers
  1. economics - bobpursley, Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 12:06pmpresent value= 10,000/(1+i)+10000/(1+i)^2 I do not understand the
    1. answers icon 1 answer
  2. For this problem a/a-1- a-1/a=4 .Is the answer a=1 1/2. I solved it by multiplying a(a-1) both side as suggested by bobpursley.
    1. answers icon 1 answer
    1. answers icon 0 answers
more similar questions