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FAN AND MEDAL: NEED HELP PLEASE! Maya and Sally were the two finalists in a singing competition. The person with the most votes from the audience was chosen as the winner. Sally received 25% of the total votes and lost by 62,500 votes. No person in the audience was allowed to vote more than once. The equation below represents this situation, where y is the total number of votes cast and x is the number of votes Maya received.

x - 62,500 = 0.25y

If a total of 125,000 people voted, how many votes did Maya receive? Do not enter comma for placeholder values.,

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Kalahira
x-62500=0.25y y has been given as 125000 So x-62500 =0.25*125000 x-62500 = 31250 Making x the subject of the equation: x=31250+62500 x=93750 Therefore Maya received 93750 votes.

Maya recived exactly 93750 votes



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