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If $\frac{2}{5}$ of a population voted in an election, what percent of the population did not vote?
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Since we know that $\frac{2}{5}$ of the population voted, we subtract this from 1 (which represents the whole population) to find the fraction that did not vote. This gives us $1 - \frac{2}{5} = \frac{3}{5}$. Show more…
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