Difference between the greater and the mean


Nicomachus defined a "fifth proportion" to exist whenever among three terms the middle term is to the lesser as their difference is to the difference between the greater and the mean. Show that 2, 4, 5, are in fifth proportion. Find two more triples in this proportion.

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