The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of YES votes to NO votes was 2 to 3. If there were 4735 TOTAL votes, how many NO votes were there?

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\3. yes the presentation (i.e. odd numbers being written as differences of two squares) is possible for all odd natural number however the presentation may not be unique. for example,  57=112−82=292−28257=112−82=292−282.

\4. 2 can't be written as a difference of two squares because 4-1=3 and 1-1=0 and the difference of squares grows to integers larger that 3.

can i get some in proving questions 1 and 2?