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free shopping with her mother they pay $2 per pound for tomatoes at the vegetable stand find the constant proportionality in this situation write an equation to represent the relationship

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\bf \qquad \qquad \textit{direct proportional variation}\\\\\textit{\underline{y} varies directly with \underline{x}}\qquad \qquad y=kx\impliedby \begin{array}{llll}k=constant\ of\\\qquad variation\end{array}\\\\[-0.35em]\rule{34em}{0.25pt}



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Equation would be y=2x

So how you would use it is let’s say they bought 10
So y=2(10) so 20 dollars for 10 pounds
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