Unit 6: Ratios and Proportions Vocabulary

A ratio is a comparison of __________ numbers or quantities.

• two

• three

• four

• five

Two ratios that have the same value, or represent the same relationship between quantities.

• Similar Ratios

• Equivalent Ratios

• Parallel Ratios

• Perpendicular Ratios

What is a rate?

• a comparison of two numbers or quantities

• a statement of equality of two ratios

• a ratio of two measurements having different kinds of units

• geometric shapes that have the same shape but different sizes; they have corresponding angles and corresponding sides

When a rate is simplified so that it has a denominator of 1.

• rate

• fraction

• decimal

• unit rate

What is a statement of equality of two ratios?

• ratio

• unit rate

• proportion

• rate

What an be used to determine whether two ratios form a proportion?

• unit rate

• cross products

• ratio

• similar figure

Geometric shapes that have the same shape but different sizes; they have corresponding angles and corresponding sides.

• Congruent figures

• Similar figures

• Unit Rates

• Identical figures

How many cross products are in every proportion?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4