Question

Voting in 2004 presidential election George Bush received 53.25% of the total electoral votes and john Kerry received 46.75% of the total electoral votes. If there were 537 total votes cast by the electoral college how many electoral votes did each candidate receive? Round to the nearest vote?

Answer 1

George Bush received 286 votes and John Kerry received 251 votes.

Explanation:

Total number of votes = 537

% of votes received by George Bush = 53.25 %

No. of votes recieved by George Bush =
`(53.25)/(100)` ×537

= 285.95

≈ 286 votes.

The rest of the votes were for John Kerry,

=537 - 286

= 251