 | Robert Robinson (inspector of national sch, Ireland.) - 1867 - 388 pages
...leads to the least misconception of what is really stated, and forms the best test of its accuracy. The product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Those who know that the expressions 3 : 4 : : 6 : 8 and are equivalent, and who understand some little... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Algebra - 1868 - 270 pages
...fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the second and third the means. 106. In a proportion the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Let ie a : b = c : d Clearing of fractions, ad = be A proportion is an equation ; and making the product... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 430 pages
...: 3 4 6 becomes s=o> multiplying each member by 2 and 3, we 2i o have 4x3=6x2. Hence, 382. In every proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. 1. Either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme. 2. Either mean... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...3 4 6 becomes 5=5. multiplying each member by 2 and 3, we jy *_) have 4x3=6x2. Hence, 382. In every proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. 1. Either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme. 2. Either mean... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 360 pages
...the proportion 2 : 3 : : 4 : 6, 2 and 6 are the extremes, and 3 and 4 the means. ART. 200. In every proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of tJie extremes. ILLUSTRATIONS. — If we have 3 : 4 : : 6 : 8, the ratios of each couplet being equal... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...between the other two. Thus, In 12 : 6 :: 6 : 3, 6 is a mean proportional. TOIIVCIIVLES. 328. 1. In every proportion the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. For, in the proportion 6 : 3 : : 4 : 2, since the ratios are equal (Art. 326), WB have $ = £. Now,... | |
 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1869 - 459 pages
...: B : C. When A denotes ^-^ and B denotes i, then, C = 1-28 : that is, 78125 : i : : I : 1-28, and the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Hence : -~I*±*A and —-^ are equivalent ratios, and it follows, that the product of any number multiplied... | |
 | James Smith - 1869 - 490 pages
...or proportion, A : B : : B : C, when A denotes * ^* and B denotes I ; then, -8 : I : : I : -125, and the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Now, if the radius of a circle = -125, then, (6 x -125) = 75 = the perimeter of a regular inscribed... | |
 | James Smith - 1870 - 634 pages
...63 agreed. If I : 2 : : 2 : 4, the converse of this proportional holds good ; 4 : 2 : : 2 : I, and the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes : mxn = « xm, whatever values we may put upon m and «, and in either way, works out to the same result... | |
 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 330 pages
...the area of a circumscribing square to the latter = 16. Hence: r28 : 1-6384 :: 12-5 : 16 ; therefore, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes, and proves that the areas of circles are to each other as the areas of their circumscribing squares.... | |
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In any proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. 
