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Is y=4x-5 proportional

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No it's not proportional because it would be like y=4x. And proportional relationship doesn't have any operation between the “k” and “x” where K is the unit rate or the constant of proportionality!
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Answer: A proportional relation between two numbers, x and y is when:

y= k*x, where k is a real number.

this is read as "the number y is k times the number x" so y is proportional to x, and the constant of proportionality is k.

The equation in the problem is: y = 4x - 5, here you have an x-intercept equal to -5, this quantity breaks the proportionality relation. So in this case y is not proportional to x.

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