Question

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In an assembly election, a candidate got 55% of the total valid votes. 2% of the total votes were declared invalid. If the total number of votes is 104000, then the number of valid votes polled in favour of the candidate is

Answer 1

Number of valid votes
$=\frac{98}{100}\times 104000=101920$
$\therefore$ Valid votes in favour of the candidate

$\frac{101920\times 55}{100}=56056$