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Combinatorics Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

There were five candidates in the school election. After $90\%$ of the votes had been counted, the preliminary results were as shown on the right: Henry $14$ , India $11$ , Jenny $10$ , Ken $8$ , Lena $2$ . How many students still had a chance of winning the election?

(A) $1$ (B) $2$ (C) $3$ (D) $4$ (E) $5$

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