RATIO AND PROPORTION | SPEED NOTES | CBSE | MATHEMATICS | CLASS 6

CHAPTER 12 Ratio and Proportion Comparison by taking difference: For comparing quantities of thesame type, wecommonly use themethod of taking difference between thequantities. Some times thecomparison by difference does not makebetter sense thanthe comparison by division. Comparison by Division: In many situations, a more meaningful comparison between quantities is made byusing division, i.e.. by seeing how many times one quantity is to the other quantity. This method is known ascomparison by ratio. The comparison of two numbers or quantities bydivision is knownas the ratio. Symbol ‘:’is used todenote ratio. For comparison by ratio, thetwo quantities mustbe in thesame unit. Ifthey are not,they should beexpressed in thesame unit before the ratio istaken. For example, Isha’s weight is25 kg andher father’s weight is 75 kg.We say thatIsha’s father’s weight and Isha’s weight are in theratio 3 : 1