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47. It's really quite simple (and it's MATH!)

Sat May 21, 2016, 01:27 PM

May 2016

Take the number of caucus attendees taking part in the caucuses and multiply it by the percentage (it is easier to do if you change the percentage into a fraction) each candidate won. Or multiply the number of caucus participants, multiply it by the percentage won by one of the candidates. That is the number of votes, for lack of a better term here, won by that candidate. To get the number of votes won by the other candidate, subtract the first candidate's product from the number of caucus participants

For example: 100 people participated in an imaginary caucus. Candidate One gets 71% of the tally. Candidate Two gets 29% of the tally.

100 times .71 = 71! Subtract those 71 caucus participants from the total 100 participants and you get 29.

Ergo, Candidate one in this imaginary caucus got 71 votes and Candidate Two got 29 votes.

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It's really quite simple (and it's MATH!) 1monster May 2016 #47

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