In 1912, the original candidates for united states president were woodrow wilson and william h. taft. because of party disagreements, former president theodore roosevelt also decided to run and ended up splitting the vote with his fellow republican and incumbent, taft. in a certain state, the ratio of the popular vote of taft to roosevelt to wilson was approximately 35: 41: 63. if approximately 208,500 votes were cast in that state for the three candidates altogether, how many were cast for taft?