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Mathematics (Grade 8)

Expressions & Equations

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Expressions & Equations: Linear Equations

Graphing Proportional Relationships from an Equation

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Graphing Proportional Relationships from an Equation

Introduction

Have you ever noticed that some things increase at a steady rate, such as the cost of movie tickets or the distance traveled at a constant speed? These situations are called proportional rel...

Transcript

A proportional relationship happens when two quantities change so that one is a constant multiple of the other, written as y = kx.

In this equation, k is the slope, representing the constant rate of change, or unit rate, showing how much y changes for every one-unit increase in x.

Since t...