Posted by Tanya on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 8:01am.
They are both correct,
notice that if you cross-multiply, you get
1.5x = 6(.8) for both of them.
That is always a good way to check.
"x is to 6 as .8 is to 1.5 " is more obviously translated as
x/6 = .8/1.5
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