| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1861 - 638 pages
...often, with the sign : : between the ratios. Thus, A : B : : X : Y, expresses a proportion, and is read, The ratio of A to B is equal to the ratio of X to Yj or, A is to B as X is to Y. 127. The first and third terms of a proportion are called the ANTECEDENTS;... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...often, with the sign : : between the ratios. Thus, A : B : : X : Y, expresses a proportion, and is read, The ratio of A to B is equal to the ratio of X to Y ; or, A is to B as X is to Y. 127. The first and third terms of a proportion are called the... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1863 - 504 pages
...often, with the sign : : between the ratios. Thus, A : B : : X : Y, expresses a proportion, and is read, The ratio of A to B is equal to the ratio of X to Y ; or, A is to B as X is to Y. 127. Tlie first and third terms of a proportion are called the... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1863 - 432 pages
...which is read, a is to b as с is to d ; or thus, a : Ъ = с ; d, which may be read as the other, or, the ratio of a to b is equal to the ratio of с to d. The second method of writing proportion is recommended as the more appropriate. 331. A Couplet... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1864 - 444 pages
...the sign of equality, : = : ; or a combination of points only, : :: : . Thus, a : b=c : d, signifies that the ratio of a to b is equal to the ratio of с to d ; and the expression a : b : : c. : d signifies the same, and may be read, a is to о as с... | |
| Charles Davies - Algebra - 1866 - 314 pages
...relation to each other, compared together two and two, they are said to form a geometrical proportion. To express that the ratio of A to B is equal to the ratio of C to £>, we write the quantities thus, A : B :: C : D; and read, A is to B as C to D. The quantities which... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Algebra - 1866 - 580 pages
...shortness we may say that the ratio of a to b is , . a .a equal to r- , or is r • 372. Hence we may say that the ratio of a to b is equal to the ratio of c to d. when T = -, . oa 373. If the terms of a ratio be multiplied or divided by the tame quantity the ratio... | |
| John Fair Stoddard, William Downs Henkle - Algebra - 1866 - 546 pages
...Ans. 1, 2, au.:l 4. CHAPTER XVII. PROPORTION. (373>) PROPORTION is an equality of ratios. (374.) If the ratio of a to b is equal to the ratio of c to d, these four terms constitute a proportion which is usually written a : b : : c : d, and is read a is... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Algebra - 1866 - 618 pages
...is measured by j ; then for shortness we may say that the ratio of a. to Ъ is 372. Hence we may say that the ratio of a to b is equal to the ratio of с to d. when r = -, . on 373. If the terms of a ratio be multiplied or divided by tfie same quantity... | |
| Charles Davies - Algebra - 1867 - 322 pages
...relation to each other, compared together two and two, they are said to be in geometrical proportion. To express that the ratio of A to B is equal to the ratio of C to D, we write the quantities thi's : A : B : : C : D ; and read, A is to B as C to D. The quantities which are compared, the one... | |
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