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1.   In an election, there are three candidates contested.
     The first candidates got 40% votes and the second
                                                                  (a) 21000                    (b) 23500
     got 36% votes. If total number of votes polled were
     36000, find the number of votes got by the 3rd               (c) 22000                   (d) 27500
     candidate./                                             5.   Raju, Ravi and Ashok contested an election. 5%
                                                                  votes polled were invalid. Raju got 30% of the total
                                                                  votes. Ravi got 32% of the total votes. The winner
                                                                  got 5136 more votes than the person who received
     (a) 8040     (b) 8640       (c) 9360       (d) 9640          the least number of votes. Find the total number
2.   In an election between three candidates, Arjun,              of votes polled./
     Bhasker and saral contested for a post. Arjun got
     50% votes more than saral, and saral got 2% votes
     less than Bhaskar. The difference between the votes
     of Bhaskar and saral is 1296. What is the half of
     the difference between the votes of Arjun and
     Bhaskar?/                                                    (a) 171200                   (b) 64200
                                                                  (c) 171220                  (d) 172100
                                                             6.   In an election two candidates participate. 20% votes
                                                                  declare invalid and the winner gets 70% of valid
                                                                  votes and he win by 9600 votes. Find the no. of
                                                                  (i) Voting list/
     (a) 13888                   (b) 13988                        (ii) Valid votes/
     (c) 17550                   (d) 15228
3.   Three candidates P, Q and R participated in an
     election. P got 35% more votes than Q, and R got
     15% more votes than Q. P overtook R by 2,412
     votes. If 90% voters voted and no invalid or illegal
                                                                  (a) 35000, 27000             (b) 28000, 25000
     votes were cast, then what was the number of vot-
     ers in the voting list?/          P Q      R                 (c) 27500, 20000         (d) 30000, 24000
                      P Q                              R     7.   In an election two candidates participated. 20%
         Q                        P R                                                       1
                                                                  voters did not vote. 12     % votes declared invalid
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                                                                  and the winner got 60% of valid votes and he won
                                                                  by 5600 votes. Find the number of voter list./
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     (a) 46,900                  (b) 42,800                                                                    12     %
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     (c) 42,210                   (d) 48,500
4.   8% of the voters in an election did not cast their
     votes. In this election, there were only two candi-
     dates. The winner by obtaining 48% of the total
     votes, defeated his contestant by 1100 votes. The            (a) 35,000                   (b) 45,000
     total number of voters in the election was:/                 (c) 40,000                   (d) 25,000
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8.       In an election 10% voters did not vote and 11   %                                       9
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         votes declared invalid and the winner got 75% of
         valid votes. If he won by 2000 votes then find the
         voting list.
                                                              (a) 5,000         (b) 6,000
                                                              (c) 8,000         (d) 2,000
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