With the start of 2008 comes a rash of caucuses and primaries to determine who each party will choose to run in the national presidential election. In light of this, here are a few questions surrounding voting, percentages, etc.
On January 3rd, both the democratic and republican parties in Iowa saw a record number of voters turn out for the caucus. In 2004, the Democratic Party had 124,000 at the caucus. This year, the Democratic Party had a turn out of 227,000 voters. By what percent did this year’s democratic voter participation beat 2004 democratic voter participation? Express your answer to the nearest tenth.
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83% Is the answer.
i agree 83% was what got
dilpinder
i also agree with dil and the other person but i had trouble getting the answer
raj
the answer is 83%.
I don't understand how to do it. How would we find the percent?
-Not so Anonymous Fareen
I got 83% as my answer.
-Erika
I also got 83% as my answer. Yet I'm just a little bit confused.
-Josh Mahurien
Nevermind. I see how I got it.
-Josh M.
I got 83 percent, but I had some troble doing it, but i think I understand it.
The blog above was me.
David
The problem was a little bit tricky. I had to ask for help. But once I saw an example I understood how to do it and got 83%.
Kathryn
I agree that the answer is 83%, but I am not sure if I worked it out right.
227-124=103
103/124=0.83= 83%
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Mr. Cox
227-124=103
103/124=0.83= 83%
I also agree there was a 83% increase in democratic voters.
-Austin Kittrell
I got 83% too.
~Jodie Mawson
83% (mr. cox is the greatest teacher in the history of all teachers. and mr cox rox!)
you must find the difference of the two cacussses which is 103,000 more voters.
then you divid 103,000 and 124,000 and get 0.830645161290323
but since it is a percent you must multiply by 100
which gets you 83.0645161ect.
but you round it and get 83
%
it reminds me of when we stocks with mr. smith in mrs. willifords class
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