Question

A total of 36.000 votes were cast for two opposing candidatesHarris and Levine Harris won by a ratio of what was the number of votes cast for Harris?

Answer 1

According to the information given in the exercise, Harries won by the following ratio:

`5\colon4_{}`

A ratio can be also written as a fraction. Then you can rewrite it in this form:

`(5)/(4)`

Knowing the ratio, you can determine that:

`36,000votes\rightarrow5+4`

Then:

`36,000votes\rightarrow9`

Notice that the value 9 is obtained by adding the numerator and the denominator of the fraction.

Now you can set up the following proportion:

`(36,000)/(9)=(h)/(5)`

Where "h" is the number of votes cast for Harris.

Solving for "h", you get: