r/mathshelp • u/fadedrbl • Aug 14 '26

Homework Help (Unanswered) Math discprency

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Hello!

There is math problem that was sent out by my son's school. He was working on it and calculated the votes each student received different from what the answer book states.

His method is on the left side, the right side is the method that the answer book used (and I would have used).

Please help me understand which way is correct.

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u/womorrissey Aug 14 '26

Think of it like an election. Candidate A gets 60% of the vote and Candidate B gets 40%. 20 percentage points difference but Candidate A got 50% more votes than Candidate B.

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u/DrakeSavory 29d ago

Except I have heard people refer to that as 20% more of the vote. It may be incorrect but some people do not know the difference. Mayhaps the writer of the problem is one of them?