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

Respuesta :

The ratio of votes has been given as;

[tex]Yes\colon No\Rightarrow5\colon8[/tex]

This means the ratios can be expressed mathematically as;

[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{Yes}=\frac{5}{5+8}\Rightarrow\frac{5}{13} \\ No=\frac{8}{5+8}\Rightarrow\frac{8}{13} \end{gathered}[/tex]

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

Therefore,

[tex]\frac{5}{13}=\frac{4275}{x}[/tex]

Where x represents the total number of votes. Therefore,

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