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Ratios Summary
777 words, approx. 3 pages
Put simply, a ratio is a comparison of two numbers. Ratios are generally used to relate the magnitude of two like parameters of an object (or two or more similar objects) relative to one another. For example, the parameters used in a ratio may describe...
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Ratio
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Quotient of two values. The ratio of &math.a; to &math.b; can be written &math.a;:&math.b; or as the fraction &math.a;/&math.b;. In either case, &math.a; is the antecedent and &math.b; the consequent. Ratios arise whenever comparisons are made. They...
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Ratio Information
709 words, approx. 2 pages
A ratio is a quantity that denotes the proportional amount or magnitude of one quantity relative to another. Ratios are unitless when they relate quantities of the same dimension. When the two quantities being compared are of different types, the units...


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Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa)
Ratio retracements.
06/01/2000: 1,694 words, approx. 6 pages
Forget your high school math? Don't worry -- ratio retracement analysis is a surprisingly easy concept of price and time projection. Read on for a quick course in Fibonacci, Dow and Gann retracement levels, fan lines and arcs. We often hear the...
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Occupational Hazards
The Safety Ratio.
06/01/2000: 1,194 words, approx. 4 pages
This simple tool can be used with safety incentive programs to encourage safer performance and improved injury reporting. Since OSHA's report on safety incentive programs was released in 1997, the effectiveness of such programs has been highly debated. Traditional safety incentive programs...
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AP News
China raises reserve ratio for banks
1/5/2007: 319 words, approx. 1 pages
China stepped up efforts Friday to cool its sizzling economy by tightening bank credit for the fourth time in seven months.The central bank raised the amount of money that banks must hold in reserves, cutting the pool available for lending. The government worries that runaway...
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In Business Las Vegas
Nurse-Patient Ratio in Care of Legislators
10/20/2006: 692 words, approx. 2 pages
The nurse-patient ratio campaign that recently drew 500 union supporters to chant and march outside of Valley Hospital is headed to the state Legislature.Assemblywoman Ellen Koivisto, D-Las Vegas, promised on Oct. 13 to introduce a bill that would mandate staffing ratios at Nevada hospitals. The...
 


 

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