Question

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 3 to 5. If there were 7912 total votes, how many yes
votes were there?

Answer 1

Answer:

2967 yes votes

Step-by-step explanation:

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One way of doing this problem follows:

Find the ratio, r, mentioned in the problem statement.  To do this,

write the equation 3r + 5r = 7912 and solve this for r:

8r = 7912, so that r = 989.

Then the number of yes votes was 3(989), or 2967, and the number of no votes was 5(989), or 4947.

check:  Does the ratio 2967/4947 equal 3/5?  yes.

There were 2967 yes votes.