The question is asking you to find 2/3 of 471, which can also be written as 2/3*471 (* = multiplication)
2/3*471 (multiply the numerators by each other and the denominators by each other) =942/3 (divide the numerator and denominator by 3) =314/1 or 314 votes
You have to multiply the total number of votes, 471 and multiply it by 2/3 to find the number of votes that Candidate B got. 471 multiplied by 2/3 is 314 votes.
