60% of the registered candidates in an election are from congress and 40% of the registered candidates are from BJP. If 3/4th of the registered Congress candidates and 1/5 of the registered BJP candidates fight election. What is the percentage of people fighting elections?
Pick
A) 34%  B) 43%  C) 53%  D) 54%  E) 56%
Let total people be x   53%ongress =60/100*x=3x/5   3/4 of 3x/5=9x/20   Bjp=40/100*x=2x/5   1/5 of 2x/5=2x/25   Adding both   9x/20+2x/25=53x/100   Ans=53%   ANSWER:53%
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60% of the registered candidates in an election are from congress and 40% of the registered candidates are from BJP. If 3/4th of the registered Congress candidates and 1/5 of the registered BJP candidates fight election. What is the percentage of people fighting elections?