Question

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 7 to 4. If there were 8756 total votes, how many yes votes were there?

Answer 1

5572

Explanation:

The given ratio is ...

yes : no = 7 : 4

so the ratio of yes to total votes is ...

yes : (yes + no) = 7 : (7+4) = 7 : 11

Then the number of yes votes is ...

(7/11)×8756 = 5572 . . . yes votes