SOLUTION: How do you do a proportion? Like 4/1=x/16
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Question 765978: How do you do a proportion? Like 4/1=x/16
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Cross-multiply. That is, multiply the numerator on the left times the denominator on the right. Set that product equal to the product of the denominator on the left times the numerator on the right. Solve the resulting single variable linear equation.
John
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