document.write( "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? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( " = 8199.     ANSWER\r\n" );
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document.write( "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 \r\n" );
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document.write( "the number of people in each part.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Next, there are 4+5 = 9 such parts in total, so we multiply the ratio   by 4+5.\r\n" );
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