I've always seen the following in physics and math textbooks but never understood the process by which it was mathematically deducted:
$A \propto B$ $\space$ and $\space$ $A \propto C \space\space\space \rightarrow \space\space\space A \propto BC$
Could someone walk me through how this is done? This has been bothering me for a while now :P
Thanks
Update: Here's something I found that explains how this works. (Page 387; "Proof" section). Still, this proof takes the two statements one after the other. The author uses $x \propto y$ when $z$ is constant, and then takes care of $x \propto z$ when $y$ is constant, where it left off from the first (going from $x$ to $x'$ and then $x_1$). Is this the only way it can be done?