Question

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?

Answer 1

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