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What is the equation for proportions? What does each letter represent?

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Ratios and Proportions - Proportions - In Depth. A proportion is simply a statement that two ratios are equal. It can be written in two ways: as two equal fractions a/b = c/d; or using a colon, a:b = c:d. The following proportion is read as "twenty is to twenty-five as four is to five."

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