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determine if a line can have a constant rate and not be proportional write and argument to defend your response

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By definition two quantities are proportional of each other if it can be express like:


y=kx

where k is the constant of proportionality.

Now, by definition a line is a set of points that have the same rate of change between them, no matter which points we take.

Thus we can argue that a line always have a constant rate but they don't necessarily represent proportional quantities.

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