Question

The residents of a city voted on whenever to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 8 to 5. If there were 8463 total votes, how many no votes were there?

Answer 1

1) Gathering the data

The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 8 to 5.

8/5

8463 votes

2) Let's use the property of proportions, to write an expression to solve that problem:

`\begin{gathered} (8)/(5)=(8463-x)/(x) \\ 8x\text{ = 5(8463-x)} \\ 8x=42315-5x \\ 13x=42315 \\ x=3255 \end{gathered}`

So there were 3255 no votes.