According to the statement, the new flavour received 3 votes for every vote received by the original flavour. Denoting:
• x = # of votes of the original flavour,
,
• n = # of votes of the new flavour.
We can write the following equation for the number of votes:
Now, according to the statement, the number of votes of the new flavour is n = 723, replacing this number in the equation above and solving for x, we get:
Answer
The original flavour received 241 votes.