People Registered to Vote

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A random sample of citizens contains people registered to vote and not registered to vote in the ratio 12:5, respectively. How many people not registered to vote are there if the sample contains 153 people?

Review: People Registered to Vote


Explanation

If we call the number of people registered R and those "not" N, then we have



And



We want N, so we can isolate R as and substitute:













The correct answer is (D).


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