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" In any proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. "
Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry - Page 202
by George Albert Wentworth - 1877 - 398 pages
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The practical arithmetic

John Darby (teacher of mathematics.) - 1843 - 236 pages
...T8T, and they are equal ; that is 4 : 6 :zz 8 : 12, Therefore £ = TV Whence 4x12:=eX8. In Proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes; therefore 4 : 6 :: 8 : 12. In this proportion the 4 and 12 are the extremes, and the 6 and 8 the means....
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Elements of Plane Geometry: For the Use of Schools

Nicholas Tillinghast - Geometry, Plane - 1844 - 110 pages
...products thus, (6+3+10). 4. (Explanation of Signs, 6). Prop. 1. When four numbers are in proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes ; as, 6:4:: 15 : 10, hence 10.6=15.4. Prop. 2. If the product of two numbers is equal to the product...
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The Elements of Arithmetic ... in which Decimal and Integral Arithmetic are ...

Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 258 pages
...consequents may, therefore, change places in a variety of ways, the proportion always continuing so long as the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Then, whenever one of the extremes and the two means are given, to find the other extreme, Divide the...
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Elements of Arithmetic: For Schools and Academies. In which Decimal and ...

Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1844 - 246 pages
...consequents may, therefore, change places in a variety of ways, the proportion always continuing so long as the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Then, whenever one of the extremes and the two means are given, to find the other extreme, Divide the...
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The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, Considered Anatomically ..., Volume 1

Emanuel Swedenborg - Physiology - 1845 - 602 pages
...that the rectangle of the means is equal to the rectangle of the extremes ; or as in arithmetic, that the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Hence, the action of the second and third being equal to the action of the first and fourth, we have...
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The American Statistical Arithmetic: Designed for Academies and Schools

Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...fourth by multiplying the second and third terms together, and dividing by the first. For, by Art. 178, the product of the means is equal to the product of the first term by Ihe fourth. The fourth term must therefore be equal to the product of the means divided...
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Smith and Duke's The American Statistical Arithmetic: Designed for Academies ...

Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 300 pages
...fourth by multiplying the second and third terms together, and dividing by thefirst. For, by Art. 178, the product of the means is equal to the product of the first term by the fourth. The fourth term must therefore be equal to the product of the means divided...
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Euclid's Elements of geometry, the first three books (the fourth, fifth, and ...

Euclides - 1846 - 272 pages
...dividing the antecedent by the consequent is called the ratio. If four quantities are proportional, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes; in the proportion a : 6 ; ; c : d, a and d are the extremes, b and c the means. Wherefore, in order...
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Higher Arithmetic: Or, The Science and Application of Numbers; Combining the ...

James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 434 pages
...the work is right. (Art. 500.) Demonstration. -If four numbers are proportional, we have seen that the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes ; (Art. 498 ;) therefore the prDcliict of the second and third terms must be equal to that of the first...
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Higher Arithmetic: Or, The Science and Application of Numbers; Combining the ...

James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 426 pages
...324 SIMPLE [SECT. XIV. fieiiviisfrat-tfin. — If four numbers are proportional, we Lave seen th:\t the product of the means is equal to the product of the i-xtrimcs ; (Art. 4!)S:) therefore the pr id let of tile acca ul and t.hv'd terms must be equal to...
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