The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 2 to 3. If there were 3625 total votes, how many no votes were there?

Answer 1

(Yes votes) / (No votes) = 2 / 3

So there were 3 No votes out of every 5 votes.

(3/5) * 3,625 = 2,175 No votes.

As a check,

(2/5) * 3,625 = 1,450 Yes votes.

2 ,175 + 1,450 = 3,625, which is the total number of votes.

Answer 2

Let's start by thinking about what the question is telling you when it says that the ratio of "yes" votes to "no" votes is 2 to 3. This ratio means that for every 2 "yes" votes, there were 3 "no" votes. Knowing this, we can see that out of every 5 votes, 3 of them were "no" votes. And if 3 out of 5 votes were "no", that means that 3/5 of the votes, or 60% of the votes, were "no".

From here, we just have to answer the question - how much is 3/5 of 3,625?

(I'll assume we can't use a calculator for this.)

To find 3/5 of 3,625, let's start by asking: how much is 1/5 of 3,625? To find a 1/5 of an amount, we just need to divide by 5. 3,625 divided by 5 is 725, which means that 1/5 of 3,625 votes is 725 votes.

We know that 3/5 is 3 times bigger than 1/5. So, since we know that 1/5 of the votes is 725, 3/5 of the votes would be 725 x 3 = 2,175. Hope this helps!