Question

In an election,there were only two candidates for the post of president. The winning candidate got $53\%$ of the total votes. His oppponent got $31000$ votes which represented $31\%$ of the total votes. Find the number of votes

Answer 1

Let the total votes be $x$
Then, $31$ $\%$ of $x=31000$
$\Rightarrow \frac{31}{100}\times x=31000$
$\Rightarrow x=100000$
Thus, total votes are $100000$.