A school had an election where the candidates received votes in the ratio of 1:2:3. If the winning candidate received 210 votes, how many people voted in the election?
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now, let's say the total of folks voting were "x".
now, if we divide "x" even into "1+2+3" pieces, we'd get some quotient value, the first candidate took 1 of those even pieces, the second candidate took 2 of those even pieces, and the winning candidate took 3 of them, thus winning anyway.
let's do the division, keeping in mind that the winning candidate had 210 votes.