Proportions

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Learning Lab Software:

SkillsTutor Math for Science Class: Proportion Assignment

Learning Lab and HFCC Resources:

Handouts: Arithmetic 7 and Arithmetic 8

Tape: Math 074: Tape 6

Practice Problems with Answers

Web Resources:

Purple Math: Ratio and Proportion I - an explanation of ratios with several examples.

Purple Math: Ratio and Proportion II – a definition of proportion, how to solve proportion and a few simple examples

Purple Math: Ratio and Proportion III – worked examples of proportion story problems

Purple Math: Ratio and Proportion IV – more applications of proportion

UCCS Department of Chemistry – proportion tutorial with some examples related to chemistry

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Last Edits 12/2/05
Jeff Morford (Content by J. Dawson)