Question

The residence of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes the ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 8 if there were 4275 yes both what was the total number of votes

Answer 1

The ratio of votes has been given as;

`Yes\colon No\Rightarrow5\colon8`

This means the ratios can be expressed mathematically as;

`\begin{gathered} \text{Yes}=(5)/(5+8)\Rightarrow(5)/(13) \\ No=(8)/(5+8)\Rightarrow(8)/(13) \end{gathered}`

If there were 4275 YES votes, then this means the number 4275 represents 5/13.

Therefore,

`(5)/(13)=(4275)/(x)`

Where x represents the total number of votes. Therefore,