AMC8 2017
AMC8 2017 · Q2
AMC8 2017 · Q2. It mainly tests Percent, Arithmetic misc.
Alicia, Brenda, and Colby were the candidates in a recent election for student president. The pie chart below shows how the votes were distributed among the three candidates. If Brenda received 36 votes, then how many votes were cast all together?
Alicia、Brenda 和 Colby 是最近学生会长选举的候选人。下方的饼图显示了三位候选人的得票分布。如果 Brenda 获得了 36 票，那么总共投出了多少票？
(A)
70
70
(B)
84
84
(C)
100
100
(D)
106
106
(E)
120
120
Answer
Correct choice: (E)
正确答案：（E）
Solution
Answer (E): Observe that 36 votes made up 30% of the total number of votes. Thus 12
votes made up 10% of the total number of votes and therefore there were 120 total votes.
答案 (E)：注意到 36 票占总票数的 30%。因此 12票占总票数的 10%，所以总票数为 120。
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