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It costs $15 to send 3 packages through a certain shipping company. Consider the number of packages per dollar a. Find the constant of proportionality for this situation. b. Write an equation to represent
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It costs $15 to send 3 packages through a certain shipping company. Consider the number of packages per dollar

a. Find the constant of proportionality for this situation.
b. Write an equation to represent the relationship.​

User Luis Ortega Araneda
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Let’s find the unit rate of the problem
If we divide both $15 and 3 by 3 we get $5 and 1.
That means every package costs $5, so the COP or k =5
b. Using 5 as the k in y=kx, the equation is y=5x
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