Ratio and Proportion

- Ratio is a way to compare two or more quantities.

- A ratio can be written in different ways - as a fraction, using the
word “to”, or using a colon “:”. The ratio of a to b can be written as
follows:

Example
“Out of 35 survivors of the COVID-19 in a certain barangay in Pasig
City, 20 of them are males.”. The ratio of the number of males to
the total number of survivors in that barangay can be written as
follows:

which can be read as “twenty to thirty-five” or “twenty is to thirty

five”.

A proportion is the equality of two ratios. It is an equation in which

there are ratios on both sides and can be written in two ways – as
two equal fractions or use of colons.

The proportions above can be read as “a is to b as c is to d” or “a is

to b is equal to c is to d”. In the proportion a : b = c : d, the outer
terms a and d are called extremes while the inner terms b and c are
called means.