Question

In a municipal election, there were two candidates. One who got $30\%$ of the votes polled was defeated by $16000$ votes. Calculate the total number of votes polled.

• A. $24000$
• B. $28000$
• C. $30000$
• D. $40000$

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

$40000$

Let the total vote is $x$

Given : One candidate get $30\%$ vote

Then winning candidate gets $=100-30=70\%$ vote

Then, the winning candidate defeat the loosing candidate by $40\%$

$\therefore \frac{40}{100}x=16000$

$\Rightarrow x=40000$

Then total votes polled is $40000$.