Question

The two-way table shows the number of men and women who voted for Candidate A or B.

What percent of people who voted for Candidate A were women? Express your answer to the nearest whole percent.

Men Women
Candidate A 1253 1921
Candidate B 1564 1723

?%

Answer 1

In total there were 1253+1921 people who voted for candidate A, that is in total 3174 voted for the candidate A.

Out of them 1921 were women, so the percent women among the people who voted for Candidate A was:


`(1921)/(3174)`*100%=0.6052...*100%=60.52%

So around 60% of all voters for A were women!