Write the numbers $6, 56, 24, 14$ in a proportion form, and identify extremes and means.

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Solution

Observe that $24 = 6 \times 4$ and $56 = 14 \times 4$ . Hence $\frac{6}{24} = \frac{14}{56}$ . Hence, $6 : 24 = 14 : 56$ . Here $6, 56$ are extremes and $24$ , $14$ are mean.

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