Question

Two candidates run for class president. After all the ballots are counted, one candidate has 50% of the votes. What decimal names the portion of the votes the second candidate has? Explain

Answer 1

Answer:

This link should help

Step-by-step explanation:

http://www.uvm.edu/~eclark/Math017LectureNotes.pdf

Answer 2

Answer:

0.50

Step-by-step explanation:

Because decimals are correlated with fractions, and fractions are correlated with percentage.

Essentially, everything is out of a hundred. For example, 100% is max capacity(aka the votes in this question).

In decimals, 0.50 is half of 1.00 which is essentially also max capacity. Following this logic, if you convert 50% into decimal form, it will be 0.50, and 0.50 is one half of 1.00. The other half must be 0.50 then, because if you subtract it, that's what you get, and you can check by adding it together.

Hope this helps.