Question

If 17 people voted for Jason as Vice President and 8 people voted for Karen as Vice President, what is the percent of votes for Jason and Karen?

Answer 1

`total \: number \: of \: vote \: = 17 + 8 \\ 25 \\ jason = (17)/(25) * 100 \\ 68\% \\ karen \: = (8)/(25) * 100 \\ 32\%`

Answer 2

Jason's percentage is 68%

We end up getting 32% for Karen.

Explanation:

First, we need to get the total amount of votes.

17 + 8 = 25.

25 is the total amount of votes. If Jason had got 17/25 votes we can do 2 steps to get his percentage. We can simply divide 17 by 25, or we can multiply the numerator and denominator by 4. We end up getting 68/100.

So Jason's percentage is 68%

Now we do Karen. 8/25 people voted for her, so we can again, do two ways to solve this. One way is dividing 8 by 25, another way is to multiply both the numerator and denominator by 4 because we want it out of 100.

We end up getting 32% for Karen.