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The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 4. If there were 8829 total votes, how many yes

votes were there?

User Argaen
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4905 yea votes

8829 divided by 9 = 981

981x5=4905

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