The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 4 to 5. If there were 6462 total votes how many yes votes were there?
using the ratio \(\frac{4}{5}\) we can set up a proportion \(\frac{4}{9} = \frac{x}{6462}\) 4+5 = 9 and x = number of yes votes answer is 2872 is the number of yes votes
