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. Ir there were 3822 yes votes, what was the total
number of votes?
total votes

Answer 1

Answer: 7,007 votes :)

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

The total  number of votes was $7,007$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let

x -----> the number of yes votes

y -----> the number of no votes

we know that

$\frac{x}{y} =\frac{6}{5}$

isolate variable y

$y=\frac{5}{6}x$ -----> equation A

$x=3,822$ -----> equation B

Substitute equation B in equation A and solve for y

$y=\frac{5}{6}(3,822)=3,185$

therefore

To find out the total number of votes sum the number of yes votes plus the number of no votes

$3,822+3,185=7,007$