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Because a man can write a sonnet in ten hours it does not follow that ten men could write one in one hour. Though something like that has been attempted at Oxford. 9 machines produce a certain number of screws in 6 hours. We can use the inverse proportion equation with some confidence: c time = number of machines or Hence: «= time = number of machines 6 machines would take -£• = 9 hours; 1 machine would take -5T*- = 54 hours; 2 machineswould take-5/-= 27 hours, and so on. A well-known case of inverse proportion is the relation between the volume and pressure of a mass of gas.

9 machines produce a certain number of screws in 6 hours. We can use the inverse proportion equation with some confidence: c time = number of machines or Hence: «= time = number of machines 6 machines would take -£• = 9 hours; 1 machine would take -5T*- = 54 hours; 2 machineswould take-5/-= 27 hours, and so on. A well-known case of inverse proportion is the relation between the volume and pressure of a mass of gas. We have PROPORTION 49 to see that nothing varies but the volume and the pressure.

6d. each, 55. 6d. per dozen, £2. 2s. " There are evidently three different proportions: for 1 to 5 plants, for 6 to 49 plants, and for 50 to 100 plants. Whatever calculations we make we assume one or other of these proportions. , and we realize that it would be better to have 50 plants at the 100 rate for 21s. But, according to the stated terms, we must have one proportion or another. 38 PROPORTION If the speed of a train is constant then the distance it travels is proportional to the time. In 2 hours it travels twice the distance it travels in 1 hour.

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