Aschool had an election where the candidates received votes in the ratio of 1: 4: 2. if the winning candidate received 240 votes, how many people voted in the election.

  420

Step-by-step explanation:

There were a total of 1+4+2 = 7 votes for each 4 votes the winning candidate received. Hence the total number of votes was ...

  (7/4)·(240) = 420

Comment on the question

The number of votes historically hasn't always equalled the number of people voting.

(0,,,0)

step-by-step explanation:

the table of x and y values is shown in the attached pic(part of question)

we have to decide according that graph

given points are (0, 0) (–1, 0), (2, 0)

when we graph these points on graph they show an increasing line as shown in the attached pic