Rates are ratios ... Speed is a rate of distance per unit of time... ratio of distance to time.
Proportions are two equal ratios, whether they are rates or not.
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A proportion is an equation in which 2 fractions are set equal. A rate is the ratio of change of two things. Speed is a rate, the ratio of distance to time.
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the rate of something is the amount or speed of it, whereas the ratio is the proportion of one thing to another, like for example if there was 15 sweets in a bag; 10 red and 5 blue, so the ratio of red sweets to blue would be 2 to 1. Kthanks.
It is often a ratio.
To compare to different units of measurement or a ratio that compares two quantities of different units (Ex: A car goes 100 miles in 1.5 hours, what is the rate)