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At lake view middle school, there are 2 homeroom teachers assigned to every 48 students. Is the number of students at this school proportional to the number of teachers? Explain your reasoning

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No, the number of students at the school is not proportional to the number of teachers. In a proportional relationship, two quantities have a constant ratio. However, in this case, the number of teachers is not directly proportional to the number of students because there is a fixed number of teachers regardless of the number of students. Even if the number of students changes, the number of teachers remains the same.

A more appropriate way to describe the relationship between the number of teachers and students at the school is to say that there are 2 teachers for every 48 students, or that the ratio of teachers to students is 2:48, which simplifies to 1:24.

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