Question

Surveys indicate that two-thirds of all voters in Ward 5 plan on choosing Spike Jones for commissioner. If there are 500 voters in Ward 5, about how many will be voting for Spike Jones?

Answer 1

Answer:

333 people of ward 5 are going to be voting for Spike Jones.

Solution:

We have been given that two-thirds of all voters in Ward 5 plan on choosing Spike Jones for commissioner.  

There are 500 voters in Ward 5.

Since 2/3 of all voters in Ward 5 are voting for Spike Jones the remaining 1/3 will not be voting for him.

To find out how many people in ward 5 are exactly voting for Spike Jones. We need to calculate how much is two thirds of 500 is.

This is done as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}{\frac{2}{3} \times 500} \\\\ {=\frac{1000}{3}} \\\\ {=333.334}\end{array}$

Since people cannot be denoted in decimal points we have to round it off to a whole number. That’s is 333.

Therefore 333 people of ward 5 are going to be voting for Spike Jones.