ABSTRACT

A ratio is defined as “the indicated quotient of two mathematical expressions” or as the “relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things.”2 A ratio is also deemed to be a “comparison between quantities of like nature,” the “numerical expression of how much there is of one quantity in relation to another quantity,” and a “binary relation that involves ordered pairs of quantities.”3 A ratio is also defined as the “result of comparing two quantities multiplicatively.”3