Please I NEED help

Question

During a recent election,  of every  registered voters in a certain city voted. If there were  registered voters in that city, how many people voted?

Answer 1

Answer 2

42 out of every 100 registered voters actually voted, that means 42/100 = 42% of the registered population actually voted.

if your population is 181,600, then the number of cast ballots is 42% of 181,600:

.42*181600 = 76,272

alternatively, you can use proportions:

x/181600 = 42/100 , where x is your unknown number of voters.

one initial (intuitive, but cumbersome) way is to think that in a population of 100, 42 voted; in a population of 200, 84 voted, etc. this approach should eventually lead to the more concise approaches of using proportions and percentages (as shown above in my reply).