The students at Woodward Elementary voted for a school mascot. The falcon won with 5/8 of the votes and the eagle came second wi

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Bingel [31]

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The students at Woodward Elementary voted for a school mascot. The falcon won with 5/8 of the votes and the eagle came second wi

th 1/3 of the remaining votes. If 536 students voted for a mascot, how many students voted for the eagle?

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Alenkasestr [34] · Answer 1 · 2024-01-21T11:17:10+03:00

195 students voted for eagle in the election

What is ratio?

Ratio means expressing the a figure as a fraction of total figure, in the case of falcon, the number of students that voted for falcon is seen as 5 whereas the total number of students that voted is 8 whereas for eagle, the total number of students that voted for eagle is 1 compared to 3 which represents the total number of votes cast.

In a bid to determine the number of students that voted eagle in the election, we would simply multiply total votes of 536 by 1/3

votes for eagle=1/3*586

votes for eagle=195 votes

We have rounded to the nearest whole number since number of votes cannot be fractional

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