Question

Here are the percents of the popular vote won by each successful candidate in 15 presidential elections. 49.6, 55.1, 57.4, 49.7, 61.1, 43.4, 60.7, 50.1, 50.7, 58.8, 53.9, 43.2, 49.2, 47.9, 51.2 what is the maximum

Answer 1

Maximum = 61.1

Explanation:

Given - Here are the percents of the popular vote won by each successful candidate in 15 presidential elections. 49.6, 55.1, 57.4, 49.7, 61.1, 43.4, 60.7, 50.1, 50.7, 58.8, 53.9, 43.2, 49.2, 47.9, 51.2

To find - What is the maximum ?

Proof -

We have to find which candidate got highest votes in the election .

For this, we first arrange all 15 in ascending order i.e. lowest to highest.

Now,

The arrangement is like this -

43.2,

43.4,

47.9,

49.2,

49.6,

49.7

50.1,

50.7,

51.2,

53.9,

55.1,

57.4,

58.8,

60.7,

61.1

From this , we get

Lowest votes = 43.2

Highest votes = 61.1

⇒Maximum = 61.1