Proportional Relationships Vocab

Ratios that have different numbers but represent the same relationship.

• Rate

• Ratio

• Equivalent Ratio

• Unit Rate

Compares x units of one quantity to 1 unit of another quantity.

• Rate

• Unit Rate

• Ratio

• Equivalent Ratio

A table that displays the constant relationship between two values.

• Table

• Ratio

• Ratio Table

• Table Ratio

Any relationship that is always in the same ratio. The number of apples in a crop, for example, is proportional to the number of trees in the orchard, the ratio of proportionality being the average number of apples per tree.

• Constant

• Proportional

• Proportionality

• Constant of Proportionality

Two ratios are __________ if there is a nonzero number that can be multiplied by both quantities in one ratio to equal the corresponding quantities in the second ratio.

The number of units of the first quantity in a ratio for every 1 unit of the second quantity. This is the numerical part of a rate.

• proportion

• part to part ratio

• unit rate

• independent variable

This is an equation that states two ratios are equal to each other.

• rate

• proportion

• equivalent ratio

• proportional relationship

A ratio that represents the relationship between a part and the whole.

• part to part ratio

• unit rate

• constant of proportionality

• part to whole ratio

A ratio that represents the relationship between two different parts

• part to whole ratio

• proportion

• unit rate

• part to part ratio

A comparison of two measurements with a denominator of 1

• percent

• rate

• unit rate

• percent decrease