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PSAT 1.20 Math Diagnostic. Approximately what percentage of the electoral votes will she receive if she meets this goal?


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No And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by electoral votes As with democrats arkansas on lee has

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a six of them All right check out the same

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felt like president determined like ramon currently Thank you All

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right An independent candidate has a goal of winning nebraska

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south dakota and north dakota Approximately what percentage of the

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electoral votes will she receive if she meets this goal

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and here the potential answers our percentage of the five

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hundred thirty eight electoral won't be out of the states

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All right well we may be able to put our

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brain on autopilot for this one we'll need to add

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and then we'll need to divide nothing too traumatic The

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only trick is to figure out what we need to

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add in divide in why Well the problem is asking

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us to total up the electoral votes for the states

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of nebraska south dakota and north dakota Since those are

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the only states that the independent candidate specifically wants to

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win at least she aims lo a great quality for

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presidential hopeful right Nebraska has five electoral votes south dakota

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has three and north dakota has three Well five and

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three And three is well we can almost do that

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on all our fingers It's eleven Well so now we

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need to find out what percentage those eleven votes would

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be in relation to the total electoral votes No we

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have take eleven about it by five thirty eight which

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we're told is the total number of votes on we

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come up with a round point Oh two which one

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converted to percentage speak is two percent it's Option b

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on that one was in a tight race Okay well

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let's get pilot back in the cockpit Now They ain't 00:01:35.157 --> [endTime] all gonna be this easy

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