Question

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 6. If there were 10,846 total votes, how many yes votes were there?

Answer 1

4930

Explanation:

Let the number of yes votes be 5x and the number of no votes be 6x.

Total votes = yes votes + no votes

= 5x + 6x

= 11x

11x = 10,846

No. of yes votes (5x) =
`(5)/(11)` × 10,846

= 4930