The ages of two brothers are in the ratio two to three, but in eight years, the ratio of their ages will be three to four. what is the age of the younger brother?

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in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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