Question

North carolina has 12 less electoral votes than florida. Write and solve a subtraction equation if the total number of votes for both states is 64

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

North Carolina has 12 fewer electoral votes than Florida

The total number of votes is 64

Suppose Florida receives $x$ votes

thus, votes received by North Carolina is $y$

So, we can write

$\Rightarrow x-y=12\quad \ldots(i)$

$\Rightarrow x+y=64\quad \ldots(ii)$

Solving the above equations we get

$x=38,y=26$