 | L. I. M. Chevigné - Mathematics - 1807 - 294 pages
...quotient, is called the Ratio of 12 to 4. Thus each ratio is composed of two numbers, which we call terms ; the first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the second the consequent. A proportion is the cqunlity of fwo Ratios ; whence it follows there are two... | |
 | Peter Fleming - Surveying - 1815 - 250 pages
...number of times, the first is. called a multiple of the second. Thus B=10 is a multiple of A=5. 3. The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the second the consequent ; as in the ratio of A to B, A is the antecedent, and B the consequent. The ordinary... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1829 - 196 pages
...If; that is, y is the ratio of 5 quarts to 12 quarts. 4. What is the ratio of £5 to £3 7 Ans. g. . The first term, of a ratio is called the ANTECEDENT, and the last the CONSEQUENT. 163. The RATIO is expressed hy making the consequent the NUMERATOR, and the antecedent... | |
 | Silas Totten - Algebra - 1836 - 360 pages
...to the ratio 18 18 : 6, or -77- ; and these two ratios form the proportion, 12:4 = 18:6, or^=^. 4 o The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the second term the consequent. The first and last terms of a proportion are called the extreme terms,... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...ratio of A to B is A : B, or it may just as well be writA ten in the form of a fraction, as — . x> The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the second the consequent. Thus, A is the antecedent of the preceding ratio, and B its consequent. The... | |
 | Andrew Bell (writer on mathematics.) - 1839 - 500 pages
...jj = l11o, &c., which is an intermmate À Ú number, for *] 5 = 2236, &c. is such a number. (298.) 1 The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent', and the second, the consequent1 Thus, in the ratio 6 : 2, 6 is the antecedent, and 2 the consequent. (299.)... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...colon written between the quantities, a* 5 : 20, the ratio of which is 3/=4LXXXIX. What is Ratio? I. 2. The first term of a ratio is called the ANTECEDENT, and the second, the CONSEQUENT, and both together form a COUPLET, as 12 : 3. Here 12 is the Antecedent, and... | |
 | Osman Call - Arithmetic - 1842 - 210 pages
...XXII. Proportion. Proportion is composed of ratios. A ratio is composed of antecedent and consequent. The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the second term the consequent. The ratio which one number bears to another, may be found by dividing the... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1842 - 320 pages
...principle; learning; knowledge; the truths of the gospel. It DBDOCSD, [L. dtfaco.] Drawn from; inferred. 2. The first term of a ratio is called the ANTECEDENT, and the second, the CONSEQUENT, and both together form a COUPLET, as 12 : 3. Here 12 is the Antecedent, and... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1844 - 262 pages
...between them. Thus The ratio of 12 to 4 is expressed by 12 : 4 of 17 to 9 by 17 : 9 of a to b by a : b. The first term of a ratio is called the Antecedent, and the last term the Consequent. The antecedents in the preceding ratios are therefore 12, 17, and a, and... | |
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The first term of a ratio is called the antecedent, and the other the consequent ; and the two terms together are called a couplet. 
