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To check: whether the town will hold a runoff when the top two candidates has not received more than 50% votes
Answer to Problem 30PPE
The town will hold a runoff.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
The results of an election of the mayor are shown below:
Precinct | ||||
Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Greene | 373 | 285 | 479 | 415 |
Jackson | 941 | 871 | 114 | 97 |
Voigt | 146 | 183 | 728 | 682 |
Calculation:
According to the table, the total votes of Greene, Jackson, Voigt are as follows:
Here Jackson and Voigt are top candidates.
Now, to find the percentage of votes in election are
Here, the top two candidates have not received more than 50% votes.
Therefore, the town will hold a runoff.
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