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Please help! Simple math question

The equation needs to use x, y, and an =.

Thanks!!!

Please help! Simple math question The equation needs to use x, y, and an =. Thanks-example-1

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y=4.5x

We can solve for this by finding the slope of the data using the following formula...


slope= ( y_(2) -y_(1) )/( x_(2)- x_(1) ) = (36-9)/(8-2) = (27)/(6) =4.5

So y is 4.5 times greater than x

y=4.5x
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