Find the fourth proportion of $5, 7, 15$ .

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Solution

If $d$ is the fourth proportion of $5, 7, 15$ , then we must have $5 : 7 = 15 : d$ .
Hence, $d = \frac{7 \times 15}{5} = 21$ .
Thus the fourth proportion is $21$ .

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