document.write( "Question 1172723: Write two possible proportions having the extremes 5 and 8. Can you please show solutions on how to find possible proportions? Thank you \n" ); document.write( "

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are the extremes and

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are the means. In any proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes. So multiply 5 times 8 and then find two other numbers that multiplied together result in that same product.\r
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