Question

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of votes to votes was 4 to 3. If there were 3540 yes votes, what was the total number of votes?

Answer 1

6,195

Explanation:

The computation of the total number of votes is shown below:

Given that

The ratio of yes votes to no votes is 4:3

And, the yes votes is 3,540

So, the total number of votes is

= 3,540 × 7 ÷ 4

= 6,195