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In an election, a candidate secures 40% of the votes and is defeated by a majority of 894 votes. The total number of votes recorded was ____.

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Important Questions on Percentage

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In an election between two candidates, the candidate who gets 30% of the votes polled is defeated by 12300 votes. The number of votes polled by the winning candidate is _____.

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In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes and 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got was:

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In an election between two candidates,75% of the voters cast their votes, out of which 2% of the votes were declared invalid. A candidate got 9261 votes which were 75% of the total valid votes. The total number of voters enrolled in that election was _____.

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10% of the electorate did not cast their votes in an election between two candidates and 10% of the votes polled were found invalid. The successful candidate got 54% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 1620 votes. The number of votes enrolled on the voter's list was _____.

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Three candidates in an election received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?

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The income of a broker remains unchanged though the rate of the commission is increased from 4% to 5%. The percentage of the slump in business is _____.

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A man spends 75% of his income. His income is increased.by 20% and he increased his expenditure by 10%. His savings are increased by _____.

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The boys and girls in a school are in the ratio 3 : 2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are adults, the percentage of students who are minors is _____.