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Use cross products to demonstrate whether or not the two ratios are equivalent 4/6 and 14/21

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the two ratios are equivalent beacuse 4/6 is not like a positive number so 4/6 and 14/21 are equivalent


User Protango
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What you do here is you set up an equation like this:

(4)/(6) = (14)/(21)
Cross multiply;

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Sine they are equal, the two ratios are equivalent.
User Aristotle
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