The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 3. If there were 6264 total votes how many no votes were there?

The answer is 2349.

Because the ratio of yes to no is 5 to 3, there would be 8 total votes.

Then you would make a proportion: 3/8 = x/6264 (the numbers on top are the no votes and the numbers on the bottom are the total votes)

*solve by cross-multiplying to get 8x=18792
and then x=2349