KINDS OF

PROPORTION
BUSINESS MATHEMATICS
 DIRECT PROPORTION
as one amount increases,
another amount increases at
the same rate
 DIRECT PROPORTION
• Marks scored is directly proportional to the
performance in the test.
• Temperature is directly proportional to heat.
• Energy is directly proportional to work.
• Speed is directly proportional to distance.
• Earning is directly proportional to the amount of work
done.
• The amount of food we consume is directly
proportional to how hungry we are.
 DIRECT PROPORTION
• A train travels 200 km in 5 hours.
How much time it will take to cover
600 km?
•For every 15 boys who attended the
program, there were 10 girls. How
many girls were there if there were 60
boys who attended the program?
 INDIRECT / INVERSE
as one amount increases,
another amount decreases at
the same rate
 INDIRECT / INVERSE
•Number of workers and Time taken
to complete the work
•Price and Demand
•Expenditure and savings
•Work done and energy required to
do it
 INDIRECT / INVERSE
• If 6 men can paint our house in
18 days, how long will it take 4
men to do the same job?
 PARTITIVE
a quantity is divided into two
or more equal or unequal
parts
 PARTITIVE
Four children decided to give
their grandmother a gift for her
th
70 birthday. The decided to
divide the expenses in the ratio
2:3:4:5. How much will each one
pay if the cost of the gift is 1,400
pesos only?
 BOARD DRILL
•There are 24 flowers in 3 vases. If there are
6 vases, how many flowers are there?
•Two numbers are in the ratio 5:7. If the sum
of two numbers in 120, what are the two
numbers
•If 8 men can build the extension of our
house in 6 days, how many men are needed
to finish it in 4 days?