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Vsting Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
"rate" and "ration"
I don't know what is the difference between "rate" and "ration".
Would you explain it showing some examples?
Health and fitness is one of the big current topics.
When I wanted to ask "what percentage is the fat of your body?"
I said " How much is your fat rate?"
My English teacher corrected it "fat ration".
I checked it in my dictionay but still don't know how to use them.
Would you explain it showing some examples?
Health and fitness is one of the big current topics.
When I wanted to ask "what percentage is the fat of your body?"
I said " How much is your fat rate?"
My English teacher corrected it "fat ration".
I checked it in my dictionay but still don't know how to use them.
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Wasn't your teacher saying "ratio", instead of "ration"?
- Wasn't your teacher saying "ratio", instead of "ration"?
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In simplistic terms... I usually find 'rate' is about a 'dynamic' phenomenom whereas 'ratio' is more about a 'static' proportion :
- the ratio of women within a population, the ratio of fat in the human body...
- the growth rate of the economy, the unemployment rate...
At least that's the way I use them : if the appropriate graphic representation is a pie then 'ratio' if it is a c
- the ratio of women within a population, the ratio of fat in the human body...
- the growth rate of the economy, the unemployment rate...
At least that's the way I use them : if the appropriate graphic representation is a pie then 'ratio' if it is a c
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I would say "What is your body fat percentage?". But it's a translation of what I'm saying in Japanese. So I might be wrong.
paco
paco
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I take your point : in stricter terms a ratio would be a fraction expressing how a population or class of items relates to another from the standpoint of the number of items involved in each.
So you are right in that a figure expressing the proportion of fat in the human body is probably more of a 'percentage' than a 'ratio'.
So you are right in that a figure expressing the proportion of fat in the human body is probably more of a 'percentage' than a 'ratio'.
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I'd say "body fat percentage" too.
But a percentage can be expressed as a ratio; and "body fat ratio" seems to google happily.
MrP
But a percentage can be expressed as a ratio; and "body fat ratio" seems to google happily.
MrP
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Let's not forget that all percentages are ratios -- albeit rather restricted ratios because the only permitted second term in such a ratio is 100.
40% is the ratio 40 : 100, and so on.
40% is the ratio 40 : 100, and so on.
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