Question

A chess club with 40 members is electing a new president. Boris received 16 votes. What percentage of the club members voted for Boris?

Answer 1

40%

Step-by-step explanation:

Divide the earned votes by the total of votes

16/40 = 0.4

Multiply the decimal by 100% to get the percent.

0.4(100%) = 40%

Answer 2

Boris received 40% of the votes

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that:

Total number of votes = 40 votes

Boris got 16 votes

To get the % of votes:

We will divide the number of votes Boris got by the total number of votes. Then, multiply the quotient by 100 to get the percentage

This is done as follows:

% of votes =
`(votes-Boris-received)/(total-votes)*100 = (16)/(40)*100` = 40% of the votes

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