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Maya and Sally were the two finalists in a singing competition. The person with the most votes from the audience was chosen as the winner. Sally received 25% of the total votes and lost by 62,500 votes. No person in the audience was allowed to vote more than once. The equation below represents this situation, where y is the total number of votes cast and x is the number of votes Maya received. : x - 62,500 = 0.25y If a total of 125,000 people voted, how many votes did Maya receive? Do not enter comma for placeholder values. i don't want the answer out of the blue i want it by step

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maya received 93750 votes 125000÷2=62,500 if sally receives 25% of the votes she gets 31250 votes which makes that 62500 more votes then maya
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