 | George Anthony Hill - 1888 - 200 pàgines
...77. 1. Define a proportion. Four quantities are said to be proportional, or to form a proportion, if the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth. For example: since T4T = ^, the numbers 4, 10, 2, 5, are proportional. ABEF CDGH... | |
 | George Anthony Hill - 1888 - 202 pàgines
...77. I. Define a proportion. Four quantities are said to be proportional, or to form a proportion, if the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth. For example: since ^ = f, the numbers 4, 10, 2, 5, are proportional. A h EF CDGH... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching - 1888 - 208 pàgines
...consequents, £, Q. DEF. 7. Three magnitudes (A, £, C) of the same kind are said to be proportionals, -when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to that of the second to the third ; that is, when A: B :: B : C. In this case C is said to be the third... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury, Grenville C. Emery - 1889 - 428 pàgines
...two terms together are called a couplet. 169. Proportion is an equality of ratios. Four numbers are proportional when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth. The equality of two ratios is indicated by the sign of equality (=) or by four... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1890 - 414 pàgines
...EATIO AND PROPORTION. SIMILAE FIGURES. D'EFINITIOTSS. 277. Four quantities are said to be in proportion when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth. Thus, if £ = ° then, A, B, C, D are said to be in proportion. The proportion... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1891 - 424 pàgines
...KATIO AND PKOPOKTION. SIMILAR FIGUKES. DEFINITIONS. 277. Four quantities are said to be in proportion when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio oi the third to the fourth. Thus, if g = g, then, A, B, C, D are said to be in proportion. The proportion... | |
 | Nathan Fellowes Dupuis - 1892 - 362 pàgines
...quantity. PROPORTION. 82. Pour quantities are proportional, or are in proportion, or form a proportion, when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth. Thus a, b, c, d are proportional when a : b •— с : d. This may be expressed... | |
 | Euclid - 1892 - 460 pàgines
...: A is the reciprocal of A : B. g. Three magnitudes of the same kind are said to be proportionals, when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to that of the second to the third. Thus A, B, C are proportionals if • A : B :: B : C. B is called... | |
 | Irving Stringham - 1893 - 164 pàgines
...that of the second to the third." n. "Three or more magnitudes are said to be in continued proportion when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to that of the second to the third, and the ratio of the second to the third is equal to that of the third... | |
 | Charles Smith - 1894 - 620 pàgines
...the ratio of the differences will be equal to the original ratio. PROPORTION. 242. Definition. Four quantities are said to be proportional when the ratio...the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth. Thus a, b, c, d are proportional, if a : b = с : d. This is sometimes expressed... | |
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Proportional, when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the second to the third. 
