Three student candidate completed in a student government election, the winner got 5/8 of the votes.and the second place candida

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te got got 2/8 of the votes.if the rest of the votes went to third candidate . what fraction of the votes did that student get

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grigory [225] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-21T04:46:09+03:00

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Winner got 5/8....2nd place got 2/8....so thats (5/8 + 2/8) = 7/8

therefore, 3rd place candidate got : 1 - 7/8 = 8/8 - 7/8 = 1/8 <==