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In an election between two candidates one got 52% of the total valid votes,25% of the total votes were invalid.The total number of votes was 7200,the number of valid votes that the other candidate got was.

2592
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2716
Explanation:

Given that
Total votes=7200
Invalid votes=25% of total votes ,it means that the total valid votes are 75% of total votes.
One candidate got 52% of the total valid votes it means that other candidate got 48% of the total valid votes.
Total valid votes=$7200 \times (75/100)$ 5400 votes
Other candidate got 48% of the total valid votes that is =$5400 \times (48/100)$=2592
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