Question

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 6 to 5. If there were 4355 no votes, what was the total number of votes?

Answer 1

5226

Explanation:

We can write the following ratios

Yes:no

6:5

x:4355

To solve this we have to mulitply 6 by 871 (because this is what we mulitplied the original ratio by to get 4355) 6*871=5226