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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 4955 yes votes, what was the total number of vote…

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 4955 yes votes, what was the total number of vote…
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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 4955 yes votes, what was the total number of votes?

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First you divide 4955 by 5 to get 991, then you multiply that by 3 to get 2973, the amount of no votes, then you add those together to get 7928 total votes
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