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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 8756 total votes, how many yes votes were there?

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Answer:

  5572

Step-by-step explanation:

The given ratio is ...

  yes : no = 7 : 4

so the ratio of yes to total votes is ...

  yes : (yes + no) = 7 : (7+4) = 7 : 11

Then the number of yes votes is ...

  (7/11)×8756 = 5572 . . . yes votes

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