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Only two candidates,Nitish and Lalu,contested the election of Patna parliamentary constituency.20% of the voters have not cast their vote and 120 votes have been declared as invalid.The winner,Nitesh,got 200 votes more than his opponent Lalu,thus he secured 41% of the votes out of the total votes.Percentage of votes of the defeated candidate of the total votes polled is:
A.38% B.41%
C.45%
D. 47.5%

Asked In TCS salakha badkul (11 years ago)

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Abhishek Jain  (11 years ago)

20% votes are less , so total given vote = 80%.
Out of which nitish got 41% so rest are = 39%

Let votes of lalu = x ;
so vote of nitish = x+200;
rest vote = vote of lalu + discard votes ;
= x + 120;
Let total no of votes = t.
So .. (x+200)*100/t = 41 . ...(1)
and (x+120)*100/t = 39. ..... (2)

By solving (1) nd (2)..
we get t = 4000 , x = 1440.

so total pulled vote = 80% of t = 3200.
so defeted % = 1440*100/3200 = 45%... ans(C).

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

ans cant be 45%. since 41% se less than 45%.percent of vote of won candidate wl be more than that of the defeated one. . n check the options only option a is in favour. .so without going through detailed calculation we can directly say that ans will be 38% :)

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PANKAJ ARORA  (11 years ago)

@PALLAVI: ans is correct...
here 45% is percent of votes of the defeated candidate of the total votes polled
n 41% is percent of votes that nitesh got of the total no. of votes( polled+ not polled).

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bhawesh kumar  (11 years ago)

somebody please provide clear solution ......

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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Pallavi Barjatiya  (11 years ago)

abhishek was right i was wrong !

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