Question

Pandian and Thamarai contested for the election to the Panchayat committee from their village. Pandian secured $11,484$ votes which was $44$% of the total votes. Thamarai secured $36$% of the votes. Calculate (i) the number of votes cast in the village and (ii) the number of votes who did not vote for both the contestants.

Answer 1

Let the total number of votes cast in the village be x.

Then $44\%\times x=11484$

$⟹x=\frac{11484\times 100}{44}=26100votes$

$\left(1\right)$ Total no. of vote casted in the village$=26,100votes$

$\left(2\right)$ No. of voters who didn't vote for both the contestants $=20\%\times 26100=5,220$ voters.