 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1867 - 240 pages
...100—3z= B's gain, and 40z — 200= A's stock. Therefore, 4te— 200 : 20a; : : 3x : 100—3z. Since the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes, 60z2=(40z— 200)(100— 3«). Reducing, z2— J{°x=— i°o°. Whence, z=20; hence, &c=60= A's gain,... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 430 pages
...denoting the equality of two ratios, either, or both, being compound. As in Simple Proportion, 386, The product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. Hence, 1. A factor in either extreme equals the product of the means divided by the product of the... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Algebra - 1868 - 264 pages
...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 a : b = c : d ac l = d Clearing of fractions, ad = be A proportion is an equation ; and making... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...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 - 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... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1872 - 284 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 : b : : c : d, a and d are the extremes, b and c the means. Wherefore, in order... | |
 | 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. 
