What are the means of the following proportion $3/15=12/60$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-23T16:02:07

$15$ and $12$ are means and $3$ and $60$ are extremes of the above proportion.

Means and Extremes of Proportion

Suppose two ratios a:b and c:d are in proportion.Then it can be expressed as

$a/b=c/d$

Here, $a$ , $d$ = extremes and,

$b$ , $c$ = means

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What are the means of the following proportion 3/15=12/603/15=12/60?