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When 2/9 of the votes on a certain resolution have been counted, 3/4 of those co
When 2/9 of the votes on a certain resolution have been counted, 3/4 of those co
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问题
When 2/9 of the votes on a certain resolution have been counted, 3/4 of those counted are in favor of tie resolution. What fraction of the remaining votes must be against the resolution so that the total count will result in a vote of 2 to 1 against the resolution?
选项
A、11/14
B、13/18
C、4/7
D、3/7
E、3/14
答案
A
解析
For this problem, by assigning carefully chosen numbers to quantities given in the problem, it can be made more concrete and some of the computations with fractions can be avoided.
Since 2/9 of all the votes have been counted and 3/4 of them are for the resolution, 36 (= 9 × 4) would be a good number to use as the total number of votes cast. Since the total count must result in a vote of 2 to 1 against the resolution, 2/3 of all of the votes must be against the resolution. This information can be summarized in the following table.
From the table, it is clear that of the 28 votes still to be counted, 22 must be against the resolution.
Therefore, the fraction of the votes still to be counted that must be against the resolution is 22/28 = 11/14.
In general, letting T represent the total number of votes cast, since the total count must result in a vote of 2 to 1 against the resolution, 2T/3 votes must be against the resolution. The information is
summarized in the following table.
From the table, it is clear that of the 7T/9 votes still to be counted 11T/18 must be against the resolution. Therefore, the fraction of the votes still to be counted that must be against the resolution is
The correct answer is A.
Alternative explanation:
Assign actual numbers to the problem to make the math more concrete. Since we are dealing with — of something and also — of something, we will want our numbers to be convenient. Look for multiples of 36 (9 times 4) for which 2/9 and 1/4 will result in whole numbers. A number that will work well is 180.
Of the 180 votes, 2/9 have been counted.
2/9(180) = 40 votes counted. This means 140 votes have not been counted.
Of those 40 counted votes, 3/4 are in favor. 3/4 (40)= 30 votes in favor (of the 40 counted).
This means 10 votes are not in favor (of the 40 counted).
Looking ahead to the desired end result, in order to achieve a 2:1 ratio against, 1/3 of the votes will be for and 2/3 will be against. Therefore we will need 120 votes against. So far we have 10 votes not in favor.
In order to reach a total of 120 uncounted votes, of the 140 uncounted votes, we will need 110 votes not in favor to combine with the 10 counted votes not in favor.
This is 110/140 or 11/14. The correct answer is A.
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