RATIO & PROPORTION

BY : SEC 1 DHANANJAY
 RATIO

IN MATHEMATICS, A RATIO SHOWS HOW MANY TIMES ONE

NUMBER CONTAINS ANOTHER. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE ARE
EIGHT ORANGES AND SIX LEMONS IN A BOWL OF FRUIT, THEN
THE RATIO OF ORANGES TO LEMONS IS EIGHT TO SIX (THAT IS,
8:6, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO THE RATIO 4:3). SIMILARLY, THE
RATIO OF LE IS 6:8 (OR 3:4) AND THE RATIO OF FRUIT IS 8:14 (OR
4:7).THE RATIO OF WIDTH TO HEIGHT OF STANDARD-DEFINITION
TELEVISION
THE NUMBERS IN A RATIO MAY BE QUANTITIES OF ANY KIND,
SUCH AS COUNTS OF PEOPLE OR OBJECTS, OR SUCH AS
MEASUREMENTS OF LENGTHS, WEIGHTS, TIME, ETC. IN MOST
CONTEXTS, BOTH NUMBERS ARE RESTRICTED TO BE POSITIVE.
RATIO 'S INVENTOR DETAILS
THE SYMBOL :: WAS INTRODUCED BY
WILLIAM OUGHTRED (1574-1660) IN CLAVIS
MATHEMATICAES, COMPOSED ABOUT
1628 AND PUBLISHED IN LONDON IN 1631.
HE WROTE A PROPORTION AS A.B::C.D.
NAMES OF RATIO
THESE ARE SOME NAMES OF RATIO:
1) INVENTORY RATIO
2) DEBTORS TURNOVER RATIO
3) DEBT COLLECTION RATIO
4)CREDITORS TURNOVER RATIO
 PROPORTION
A STATEMENT EXPRESSING THE
EQUALITY OF TWO RATIOS A:B AND C:D
IS CALLED A PROPORTION, WRITTEN AS
A:B = C:D OR A:B∷C:D. THIS LATTER
FORM, WHEN SPOKEN OR WRITTEN IN
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, IS OFTEN
EXPRESSED AS.
HISTORY OF PROPORTION
APPARENTLY, IT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE
ANCIENT GREEKS WHO APPLIED IT TO
DESIGNING THEIR TEMPLES. IT IS DESCRIBED
AS "THE WHOLE IS TO ITS LARGER SECTION,
WHAT THE LARGER SECTION IS TO THE
SMALLER". IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE
GOLDEN MEAN, THE GOLDEN RATIO, OR THE
DIVINE PROPORTION.
TYPES OF PROPORTION
SOME TYPES OF PROPORTION
ARE :
1)DIRECT PROPORTION
2) INVERSE PROPORTION
EXAMPLE OF RATIO
-) IF THERE ARE EIGHT ORANGES
AND SIX LEMONS IN A BOWL OF
FRUIT, THEN THE RATIO OF
ORANGES TO LEMONS IS EIGHT
TO SIX (THAT IS, 8:6, WHICH IS
EQUIVALENT TO THE RATIO 4:3).
EXAMPLE OF PROPORTION
-) IF THERE IS 1 BOY AND 3
GIRLS YOU COULD WRITE THE
RATIO AS: 1 : 3 (FOR EVERY ONE
BOY THERE ARE 3 GIRLS)
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