In an election between two candidates, the first candidate got 80% of the votes and the second candidate got 480 votes. What was the total number of votes?
Pick one
A) 1600
B) 1800
C) 2000
D) 2200
E) 2400
Let V be the total number of votes.   0.2V = 480   V = 2400   The answer is 2400.
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In an election between two candidates, the first candidate got 80% of the votes and the second candidate got 480 votes. What was the total number of votes?