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.
RATIO AND PROPORTION. Ratio is the spoken language of arithmetic. It is how we relate quantities of the same kind. 6 people, for example, are half of 12 people. Half is the name of the ratio -- the relationship -- of 6 to 12. Most important, we will see that percents are ratios. In the language of percent, we say that 6 people are 50% of 12 people.