SOLUTION: Write the proportion 5 is to 8 as 15 is to 24. These questions I just do not understand at all can someone help please? Is it 5/8 = 15/24? Or am I backwards, upsidedown :)?

SOLUTION: Write the proportion 5 is to 8 as 15 is to 24. These questions I just do not understand at all can someone help please? Is it 5/8 = 15/24? Or am I backwards, upsidedown :)?

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Question 112113: Write the proportion 5 is to 8 as 15 is to 24.
These questions I just do not understand at all can someone help please?
Is it 5/8 = 15/24? Or am I backwards, upsidedown :)?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are correct. Notice that reduces to (divide both top and bottom by 3). So this shows that becomes which means the proportion is correct.
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