Each person in a certain group supports only one of the two candidates R and T. Of the people in the group, 45 percent support Candidate R and the rest support Candidate T. How …

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Achilleterzo · Answer 1 · 2021-09-09T20:33:27+0000

Missing Information:

Of the people in the group who support Candidate R, 58 percent are in favor of flat tax
Of the people in the group who support Candidate T, 22 are in favor of a flat tax.

Answer:

$Total = 26.1\%N + 22$

Explanation:

Given

$R = 45\%$ --
Percentage
$of\ R$ in the total population

$Favor\ Flat\ Tax = 58\%$ in group R

$Favor\ Flat\ Tax = 22$ in group T

Required

Determine the number of people that supports T

First, the proportion of those that supports flax rate in R needs to be calculated.

$Proportion = 45\% * 58\%$

$Proportion = 26.1\%$

So, those that favor flat tax rate in group R are:

$Favor\ Flat\ Tax = 26.1\%N$

Where N represents the total population.

Total number of people that supports the flax tax rate is gotten by adding people that support flat tax rate in each group.

$Total = Group\ R + Group\ T$

$Total = 26.1\%N + 22$