Is 25/45 and 15/27 proportional? Show your work. (ratios)
Mathematics · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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Determine whether 25/45 and 15/27 are proportional.
Solution:
In order to determine if the two values are proportional we must simply equate them in decimal form. This can be done by dividing the numerator with the denominator.
= 25/45
= 0.5555…
= 15/27
=0.5555…
It can be seen that the two values result to a repeating decimal of 0.5, hence we can conclude that the values are proprotional.
Final answer:
Proportional.