Even though no one would have blamed Mrs. Dubose if she had wanted to leave this world in narcotic bliss, she decided to try to do what she felt was right, no matter how impossible it seemed or how painful it was. Hmm, sounds like a person whose name begins with A and ends with tticus.. 1  BACK. 2  NEXT.
A ratio is the proportional amount of one quantity relative to another quantity. It's like a fraction, or at least a fraction is one type of ratio.
Definition of ratio scale (p. 69). A ratio scale of measurement is an interval scale with the additional property that equal ratios between two possible values of a variable represent equal magnitudes. For example, distance as measured in kilometres has a ratio level of measurement  if city A is 500 km.