Three candidates contested an election, gathering 1136, 7636, and 11628 votes. What percentage of total votes went to the winner?
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Answer: A. 57%
Explanation
Summing the votes received by all three candidates yields a total cast vote count of twenty thousand four hundred. The winning candidate secured eleven thousand six28 votes out of the aggregate total number of votes cast. Dividing the winner votes by the total votes and multiplying by one hundred yields exactly fifty seven percent. Percentage calculations express a part relative to a whole as a fraction of one hundred equal parts. Election results require aggregating all candidate vote totals to determine the overall denominator for percentage shares. Rounding percentages to the nearest whole number is standard practice when presenting broad electoral statistics.
Sixty percent overestimates the winner support share through rounding or minor arithmetic calculation discrepancies. Sixty five percent is significantly higher than the actual mathematical proportion calculated from the vote totals. Ninety percent is an extreme overestimation that bears no relation to the actual vote distribution figures.
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