Question

There were only two candidates in an election. One got 62% votes and was elected by a margin of 144 votes. The total number of voters was what?

Answer 1

If we assume that everyone voted for one of the two candidates and no one wrote one in, then the total number of votes is six hundred.
To get to this you must find the difference between the two candidates share of the vote as a percentage.
100–62 = 38
62 - 38 = 24
Now we must work out how many votes one percent is. We do this by dividing the total number of votes in the margin of difference by the percentage of votes in the margin of difference.
144 / 24 = 6
Now we multiply this number by one hundred to get the total number of votes.
6 * 100 = 600
There you have it, six hundred votes in total.