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Ratio Proportion and Percentage - Lesson - 2

This document discusses ratios, proportions, and percentages. It defines a proportion as the equality of two ratios, and provides examples of using cross products to determine if pairs of ratios form proportions. It also gives examples of finding unknown terms in proportions and calculating the sum of means given a proportion. Finally, it provides two word problems asking what number should be subtracted from lists of numbers so that the differences are in proportion.

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Ratio Proportion and Percentage - Lesson - 2

This document discusses ratios, proportions, and percentages. It defines a proportion as the equality of two ratios, and provides examples of using cross products to determine if pairs of ratios form proportions. It also gives examples of finding unknown terms in proportions and calculating the sum of means given a proportion. Finally, it provides two word problems asking what number should be subtracted from lists of numbers so that the differences are in proportion.

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Ratio, Proportion and Percentage

Proportion
Proportion is a relationship between two quantities (or variables) in
which one is a constant multiple of the other. In general, proportion
can be defined as follows:

Definition: A proportion is the equality of two ratios.

Example:
Proportion
Proportion
Proportion
Example:
Use cross products to determine whether each pair of ratios forms a
proportion or not.

Example: Find the unknown terms in each of the following terms.

a. 15:12 = 35: x (provided # 0) b. 3:6 = x:12

Example:
Given the proportion 3:15 =12:60 then find the sum of the means.
Proportion
Class work

1. What number should be subtracted from each of the numbers 17,


14, 22, 18 so that the differences would be in proportion?

2. What number should be subtracted from each of the numbers 25,


22, 30, 26 so that the differences would be in proportion?
Class Work
Class Work

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