Bush v. Gore part 2

A VERY CLOSE ELECTION
SOLUTION PLAN

Florida

Bush – 2 912 790 votes, Gore – 2 912 253 votes.
Total is 5 825 043 votes. Bush won by 537 votes. Using a proportion: 5 825 043 votes / 100yd. = 537 votes / X yd. Therefore:
5 825 043 X = 100 (537) Solving for X, we get
X = .009218816 yd.
.009218816 yd. multiplied by 36in./yd = .331877376 in.
4/16 = .25, 5/16 = .3125. 6/16 = 3/8 = .375

Therefore if all the votes in Florida were represented by a 100 yard distance and rounding to the nearest sixteenth of an inch, Mr. Bush won by about 5/16 of an inch.

Using the same information but with the 84 ft. basketball court and using a proportion, Mr. Bush won by .007743805 ft. or about 3/32 of an inch.

USA

Taking the same approach as above, Mr. Gore would have won on the football field by about 19 3/16 inches. On the basketball court Mr. Gore wins by about 5 12/32 inches.


An interesting way to use one of your answers to get another answer is as follows:

In Florida we calculated that Mr. Bush would have won by
about .331877376 in on a football field. We could use that answer to figure out the answer to a basketball court.
(100 yd. = 300 ft.) Again using a proportion:
300 ft./84 ft. = .331877376 in./ X in. Solving for X we get X = .092925665 in. which is virtually identical to the answer we got the other way (.092925666 in.)

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