Fan and medal: need ! maya and sally were the two finalists in a singing competition. the person with the most votes from the audience was chosen as the winner. sally received 25% of the total votes and lost by 62,500 votes. no person in the audience was allowed to vote more than once. the equation below represents this situation, where y is the total number of votes cast and x is the number of votes maya received.

x - 62,500 = 0.25y

if a total of 125,000 people voted, how many votes did maya receive? do not enter comma for placeholder values.,