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A candidate got $5650$ votes in an election and won by this opponent by a margin of $3000$ votes. if there only two candidates, find the percentage of votes obtained by the defeated candidate.

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Solution

candidate got $= 5650$ votes

losing candidate $= 5650 - 3000 = 2650$

$%$ obtanded by loosing candidate $= \frac{2650}{5650 + 2650} \times 100$

$= \frac{2650}{8300} \times 100$

$= 31.93$

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