A town has 4000 registered residents. Among them, there are 1400 Democrats and 960 Republicans. The rest are independents. What percentage of registered voters in this town are independents?

In this equation, you would first figure out the percentages of democrats and republicans since you already know how many of them that there are.

1,400/4,000 = 35%

960/4,000 = 24%

1,640/4,000 = 41%

41% of voters are independent.