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 the situation, where y is the total number of votes cast and x is the number of votes my received. x-62,500=0.25y if a total of 125,000 people voted, how many votes did maya receive?

We know that Sally received the 25% of votes (i.e 1/4), which means that maya received the remaining 75% (i.e. 3/4) of votes.

So, if there was a total of 125000 votes, Maya received 3/4 of them:

.

In fact, you can check that Sally received

votes, which is indeed one quarter of the total:

step-by-step explanation:

2 and 1.

step-by-step explanation:

plug in each answer. 0 doesn't work, 1 does. so does 2. 4 doesn't:

0 = 1 is not true.

2 = 2 is true.

4 = 4 is true.

8 = 16 is not true.

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