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In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was :Group of answer choices

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In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was :Group of answer choices

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First, we need to find out the number of valid votes. Since 20% of the votes were invalid, that means 80% of the votes were valid.

So, we calculate 80% of the total number of votes, which is 7500.

80/100 * 7500 = 6000 votes were valid.

One candidate got 55% of the total valid votes. That means the other candidate got the remaining percentage of the valid votes, which is 100% - 55% = 45%.

So, the other candidate got 45% of the 6000 valid votes.

45/100 * 6000 = 2700 votes.

So, the other candidate got 2700 valid votes.

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