SOLUTION: The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 3 to 2. if there were 1618 no votes, what was the total number of votes?
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Question 754712: The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 3 to 2. if there were 1618 no votes, what was the total number of votes? Answer by Okeke_Christian(26) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Ratio of YES:NO = 3:2
Addition of individual ratio gives 5, i.e. 3+2=5
Let total number of votes be x votes.
If there were 1618 NO votes then,
=
Cross and multiply:
Therefore, there were 4045 votes in total.
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If there were 1618 NO votes, then there were 2427 YES votes.
Ratio of YES:NO votes
=2427:1618
=3:2
