Question

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 7 to 4 . If there were 8657 total votes, how many yes votes were there?

Answer 1

5509 yes votes

Explanation:

We will start by adding together our ratio, so we know how many voters there were in a total ratio, so we can divide our total number of people by it, and then multiply it by the number of people who said yes (7 people).

Our ratio was 7:4, so adding those two numbers together gives us 11. Then, dividing 8657 by 11 gives us:

8657 / 11 = 787

Now, we will multiply 787 by 7, since that was the number of people who said yes:

787 * 7 = 5509

So, there were 5509 yes votes.

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