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Ratios

★☆☆☆☆Elementary

📖Definition

A comparison of the relative sizes of two numbers, written as a:b or a/b.

📐Formulas

a : b = (a)/(b)

Ratio notation

a : b = ka : kb (k ≠ 0)

Property of ratios (multiplying both by same number)

✏️Examples

예제 1☆☆☆☆

Simplify the ratio 12:18.

예제 2☆☆☆☆

A and B share $72,000 in ratio 2:3. How much does each get?

Applications

Cooking

Ingredient proportions

Maps

Scale (e.g., 1:50,000)

Finance

Investment allocation

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