| Daniel Leach, Robert Swan - Arithmetic - 1853 - 168 pages
...one quantity bears to another, of the same kind, with respect to magnitude. The ratio of two numbers is the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus, the ratio of 12 to 4 is 3, since 12 -г- 4 = -^ = 3 ; and the ratio of 4 to 12 is à, since 4 -f- 12 = TV = J. If... | |
| James B. Dodd - Algebra - 1859 - 368 pages
...oo Direct and Inverse Ratio. (130.) The direct ratio of the first of two quantities to the second, is the quotient of the first divided by the second ; thus the direct ratio of 3 to 5 is f . The inverse ratio of the first quantity to the second, is the direct... | |
| Richard Wormell - Geometry, Modern - 1868 - 286 pages
...are in proportion, or that they form a proportion. We have already said that the ratio of two numbers is the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus the ratio of two numbers, 56 and 7, being equal to the ratio of 48 and 6, since the quotient obtained by dividing... | |
| Richard Wormell - Geometry, Plane - 1870 - 304 pages
...are in proportion, or that they form a proportion. We have already said that the ratio of two numbers is the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus the ratio of two numbers, 56 and 7, being equal to the ratio of 48 and 6, since the quotient obtained by dividing... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 302 pages
...values. DEFINITIONS. 742. Ratio is the relation between two numbers of the same unit value, expressed by the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus the ratio of 12 to 4 is 12-v-4 = 3. 743. The Sign of ratio is the colon ( : ), or the sign of division with the... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 540 pages
...values: DEFINITIONS. 742. Ratio is the relation between two numbers of the same unit value, expressed by the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus the ratio of 12 to 4 is 12 -4- 4 = 3. 743. The Sign of ratio is the colon (:), or the sign of division with the... | |
| William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1877 - 430 pages
...Net weight ? (243.) What is draft ? Tare ? Leakage 1 Break ige? ORTIQN. I . RATIO. DEFINITIONS. 244. The Ratio of one number to another is the quotient of the second number divided by the first. Thus, the ratio of 3 to 15 is 15 -f- 3, or 5. The first number... | |
| Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1880 - 452 pages
...measure of that quantity. 2. jRcttio is that relation between two quantities which is expressed by the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus the ratio of 12 to 4 is — . The ratio of A to B is ^. The two 4 Ji quantities compared together are called the... | |
| Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - Business mathematics - 1882 - 224 pages
...$50.75). RATIO AND PROPORTION DEFINITIONS. 381. Ratio is the relation of two numbers as expressed by the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus the ratio of 6 to 3 is 6-=- 3, or 2. 1. There is no ratio between quantities of different kinds ; as 6 bit. and... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - Geometry - 1883 - 326 pages
...DEFINITIONS. 1. Ratio is the relation between two quantities of the same kind, and is expressed by the quotient of the first divided by the second. Thus, the ratio of d to b is j2. The two quantities compared are called the Terms of the ratio; the first, the Antecedent,... | |
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