The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 6 to 5. If there were 8305 total votes, how many yes votes were there?

Answer 1

Hello Chance,

The ratio of yes to no votes was 6 to 5. This means that if 6 people voted yes, 5 voted no. So 6 people out of 11 people would have voted yes.

Now, there weren't just 11 total votes, but 8305 of those. Let's set up proportions:

Yes Votes 6 x

_________ ___ = ____

Total Votes 11 8305

Cross-multiply: 11*x = 6*8305

Divide both sides by 11: x = 6*8305/11 = 49830/11 = 4530

There were 4530 "YES" votes.