Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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3. Identifying Proportional Relationships
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Exercise 19 Page 200

You can use cross products to determine if the ratios are equivalent.

Yes.

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To determine if the given ratios form a proportion. Let's first write them as fractions. ccc Ratio & & Fraction [0.8em] 3.5: 2 & → & 3.5/2 [1em] 14: 8 & → & 14/8 Then, we will set them equal to one another and use the Cross Products Property. If the resulting equation is true, then the ratios form a proportion.
3.5/2? =14/8
3.5*8? =2*14
28 = 28 âś“
Yes, the ratios form a proportion because the cross products are equal.