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 5896 total votes, how many no votes were there?

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Squaregoldfish · Answer 1 · 2023-01-17T06:13:22+0000

Answer:

If the ratio of yes votes to no votes was 7 to 4, then there were a total of 7 + 4 = <<7+4=11>>11 yes and no votes.

Since there were 5896 total votes, the number of no votes was 4/11 * 5896 = <<4/11*5896=1928>>1928. Answer: boxed{1928}.