 | William Smyth - Algebra - 1851 - 272 pages
...proportion, and we have a : b : : c : d, ac b = ~dThe first and last terms of an equidifference, or of a proportion, are called the extremes, and the second and third the Tncans of the cquidifference or the proportion. PROPERTIES OF EO.UIDIFFERENCE3. LVI. Let there... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1852 - 320 pages
...first term of each couplet is called the Antecedent, and the second term is called the Consequent. The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the Extremes, and the second and third terms are called the Means. Since, in a proportion, the quotient obtained by dividing the first term by the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1886 - 340 pages
...quantities which are compared together are called tne terms of the proportion. The f1rst and last terms are called the extremes, and the second and third terms, the means. Thus, A and D are the extremes, and B aud G the means. 3. Of four proportional quantities, the first and... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1852 - 408 pages
...proportion. ART. 264. Each of the four quantities in a proportion is called a term. The first and last terms are called the extremes ; and the second and third terms, the means. The terms of a proportion may be either monomials or polynomials. quents (Art. 257) ; and the last... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - Arithmetic - 1854 - 336 pages
...4 and 24 are equivalent to the sign of equality, and this sign is sometimes used in their stead. 6. The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the second and third terms are called the means. 96, From the foregoing definitions several consequences may be drawn, among which... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1856 - 312 pages
...first term of each couplet is called the Antecedent, and the second term is called the Consequent. The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the Extremes, and the second and third terms are called the Means. Siuce, in a proportion, the quotient obtained by dividing the second term by... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1857 - 408 pages
...proportion. ART. 36<1. Each of the four quantities in a proportion is called a term. The first and last terms are called the extremes ; and the second and third terms, the means. . The terms of a proportion may be either monomials or polynomials. ART. 205. Of four quant'ties in... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 344 pages
...forming the other Ratio, the four numbers which compose these Ratios, taken in order, make a Proportion. The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes ; the second and third, the means. Thus, since the ratio of 12s. to 6». is 2, and the ratio of 8 yards... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1863 - 346 pages
...less than 1, the second term is less than the first, and the fourth term less than the third. 241. The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes : the second and third terms, the means. Thus, in .the proportion, 3 : 12 : : 6 : 24, 3 and 24 are... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...as 4 is to С ; that is, 2 is the same part of 3 that 4 is of C. 2 is f of 3, and 4 и § of 6. 367. The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the second and third are called the means. The first ratio is called the first couplet, and the second ratio the second... | |
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The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the second and third terms, the means. Thus, in the foregoing proportion, 8 and 3 are the extremes and 4 and 6 are the means. 
