Question

North carolina has 12 less electoral votes than florida. Write and solve a subtraction equation if the total number of votes for both states is 64

Answer 1

Explanation:

Given

North Carolina has 12 fewer electoral votes than Florida

The total number of votes is 64

Suppose Florida receives
`x` votes

thus, votes received by North Carolina is
`y`

So, we can write

`\Rightarrow x-y=12\quad \ldots(i)`

`\Rightarrow x+y=64\quad \ldots(ii)`

Solving the above equations we get

`x=38,y=26`