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Hello everybody! Can anyone help me with this? I just need to know if it's a Direct variation, a inverse variation, or neither? (Look at the photo) Thanks!

Hello everybody! Can anyone help me with this? I just need to know if it's a Direct-example-1
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Remember that

A relationship between two variables, x, and y, represent a proportional variation (direct variation) if it can be expressed in the form y=Kx

An equation of the line that passes through the origin

A relationship between two variables, x, and y, represents an inverse variation if it can be expressed in the form y=1/x

There is a vertical asymptote at x=0

therefore

Looking at the graph

we have an inverse variation

answer is I

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