PLEASE HELP ME The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 4. If there were 6687 total votes, how many no votes were there?

First step is to get rid of the square root. remember that a square root is the same as raising to the (1/2) power. see below: multiply exponents per exponent rules to get: remember you subtract exponents from the denominator and add exponents in the numerator so: simplify further: so a is the correct choice. if you don't understand this google exponent rules and it will you understand. look at the image results.