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proportional or non proportional? 2Gb holds 250, 40Gb holds

Postby frankie10 on Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:03 pm

An MP3 player from brand A with a capacity of 2Gb will hold about 250 songs.If a brand B MP3 player with a capacity of 40Gb will hold about 10,000 songs.

is it proportional or non proportional.
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Re: proportional or non proportional? 2Gb holds 250, 40Gb ho  TOPIC_SOLVED

Postby odysseus on Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:18 am

What did you get when you did the cross-multiplication and compared the results? :?:
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