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During the election for class president, 35% of students voted for Leandro and the rest voted for Gerardo. If 70 students voted for Leandro, how many voted for Gerardo?

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Answer:

130

Step-by-step explanation:

So there's only only 2 candidates, 35% of the students voted for Leandro that means that 65% of the students voted for Gerardo as 100% - 35% = 65%

70 is 35% of the students, therefore we need to find a factor where we can multiply 35% to be 100%, so we can multiply it with 70 as well, to find all the students. 100 divided by 35 is 2.85714285714. Now we have to multiply 70 with that number. 70 times 2.85714285714 is 200.

Okay so 70 students voted for Leandro, and there are 200 students in total. So now we subtract to find how many voted for Gerardo. 200 - 70 = 130

130 students voted for Gerardo