 | Bewick Bridge - 1818 - 254 σελίδες
...72=25 + 72=97. CHAP. VI. ON RATIOS, PROPORTION, AND VARIABLE , QUANTITIES. XXVII. Definitions. 92. BY RATIO is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind ; thus, a number... | |
 | Bewick Bridge - 1821 - 284 σελίδες
...25 + 72 = 97. 121 CHAP. VI. ON RATIOS, PROPORTION, AND VARIABLE QUANTITIES. XXVII, Definitions. 92. BY RATIO is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind ; thus, a number... | |
 | Bewick Bridge - 1821 - 648 σελίδες
...72 = 97. 121 CHAP. VI. ON RATIOS, PROPORTION, AND VARIABLE QUANTITIES. XXVII. DefirdliOTis. 92. Bv RATIO is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident' that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind; thus, a number... | |
 | George Lees - 1826 - 276 σελίδες
...much per cent, as the horse cost him. Required the cost. ON RATIOS AND PROPORTION. 95. By the term RATIO, is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is obvious, that this relation can exist only between quantities of the same kind, as of a line... | |
 | Bewick Bridge - 1839 - 280 σελίδες
...ON RATIOS, PROPORTION, AND VARIATION. XXVII. <n J "" ' •"s , ~•''- - - - •> / Definitions. 90. BY Ratio is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind ; thus, a number... | |
 | John D. Williams - 1840 - 634 σελίδες
...Euclid, book 6, p. A., the 3d term is greater than the fourth. On Ratios, Proportion, and Variation. 73. By Ratio is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind ; thus, a number... | |
 | John D. Williams - 1840 - 216 σελίδες
...x=/n/n, and the formulas become n n' n" , n'" — =£, and On Ratios, Proportion, and Variation, 73. By Ratio is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind ; thus, a number... | |
 | Wales Christopher Hotson - 1842 - 306 σελίδες
...Which is the greater, TS + -3 or -r H — ? oa ai ba a , b Ans. r. +—.• b* a2 RATIOS. 128. Ratio is the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude, the comparison being made by considering what multiple, part or parts, one is of the other. 129. The quantities... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - 1842 - 1114 σελίδες
...H + ¿), &c. ; and that, on multiplication, will be found to be the case. ARITHMETICAL RATIO. 727. The relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude, is called a ratio. It is evident that no relation can exist between quantities that arc not of a similar... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1844 - 394 σελίδες
...on the hypothesis that a=b, we shall have ao + * , <q — s a;=_i-! — , and y——J— — Zas ' Zas The preceding discussions show the precision with...of quantities may be compared in two ways. 1. With regard to their difference. This is called Arithmetical ratio, or ratio by difference. 2. With regard... | |
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BY RATIO is meant the relation which one quantity bears to another, with respect to magnitude. It is evident that this relation can exist only between quantities of a similar kind ; thus, a number must be compared with a number; a line with a line; &c.... 
