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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 4 to 5. If there were 6462 total votes how many yes votes were there?

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 4 to 5. If there were 6462 total votes how many yes votes were there?
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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 4 to 5. If there were 6462 total votes how many yes votes were there?

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using the ratio
(4)/(5) we can set up a proportion

(4)/(9) = (x)/(6462) 4+5 = 9 and x = number of yes votes
answer is 2872 is the number of yes votes
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