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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 8 to 5. If there were 6216 yes votes, what was the total

number of votes?

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I think it’s 3885

Because 6216 divided by 8 is 777, 777x5 is 3885.
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