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Voting in 2004 presidential election George Bush received 53.25% of the total electoral votes and john Kerry received 46.75% of the total electoral votes. If there were 537 total votes cast by the electoral college how many electoral votes did each candidate receive? Round to the nearest vote?

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Answer:

George Bush received 286 votes and John Kerry received 251 votes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Total number of votes = 537

% of votes received by George Bush = 53.25 %

No. of votes recieved by George Bush = [tex]\frac{53.25}{100}[/tex] ×537

= 285.95

≈ 286 votes.

The rest of the votes were for John Kerry,

=537 - 286

= 251

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