In a recent election Corrine Brown received 13,212 more votes than Bill Randall. If the total number of votes was 119,064​, find the number of votes for each candidate.

Answer 1

Let's use the variable b to represent the number of votes that Bill Randall received.

Then the number of votes for Corrine will be represented as: b + 13212

Next, since the total for the two people was 119064, we can write and solve the following equation to find the number of votes for Bill first:

Bill + Corrine = 119064

b + b + 13212 = 119064

2b + 13212 = 119064

2b + 13212 - 13212 = 119064 - 13212

2b = 105852

2b/2 = 105852/2

b = 52926

Bill received 52926 votes

Corrine received 119064 - 52926 = 66138 votes