The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratios of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 7. If there were 10,740 total votes, how many no votes were there?

6,265 votes

Step-by-step explanation:

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratios of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 7. If there were 10,740 total votes, how many no votes were there?

Given that :

Ratio of yes votes to no votes = 5 to 7

Yes votes : no votes = 5 : 7

Total votes = 10,740

The actual number of yes votes and no votes can be obtained thus :

Sum of ratio = (5 + 7) = 12

(ratio of vote / sum of ratio) * total votes

Number of no votes :

(Ratio of no votes / total ratio) * total votes

(7 / 12) * 10,740

0.5833333 * 10,740

= 6,265 votes

Number of no votes = 6,265 votes.

the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b

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