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Can a ratio have three terms?

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Sure, you can write something like 1:2:5. In reality this is a shortcut way of writing three different ratios, like 1:2 (from the first quantity to the second), 2:5 (from the second to the third), which implies 1:5 (from the first quantity to the third).

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