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I need to know for each word problem to know if it’s direct , inderect, or parrative and I want to know it because I have a quiz tom Problem number 1.

I need to know for each word problem to know if it’s direct , inderect, or parrative-example-1
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Recall that proportion is partitive if the word problem can be modeled by an equation of the form:


x=ky\text{.}

Where k is a constant. The above equation means that as one variable increases the other one increases too.

In the case of inverse proportion, when one varibale

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