Question

Riverside Elementary School is holding a school-wide election to choose a school color. 5/8 of the votes were for blue, 5/9 of the remaining votes were for green 48 votes were for red. How many votes were for blue? how many votes were for green? if every student got one vote, but there were 25 students absent on the day of the vote, how many students are there at Riverside Elementary School

Answer 1

288 votes

Explanation:

wright out what you know

Blue: 5/8

Green: 5/9 (of 3/8 because it is the remaining parts) so 5/24

Red: 1 - (5/8 + 5/24) = 1/6

Find the total amount of people

You know that 1/6 of the population is 48, so the total population is 288 (48×6)

Multiply the total population by the fractions to get the number of votes