SOLUTION: The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 4. If there were 3644 no votes, what was the total number of votes?

Question 1143493: The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 4. If there were 3644 no votes, what was the total number of votes?
Answer by ikleyn(52810) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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 = 8199.     ANSWER

Explanation

From the condition, we know that the group of 3644 "NO voters" consists of 4 equal parts -- so, we divide 3644 by 4 to find 

the number of people in each part.


Next, there are 4+5 = 9 such parts in total, so we multiply the ratio   by 4+5.

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