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If y varies directly with x, and y =9 when x=3, what is x when y=15

User Ronak Shetiya
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directly varies for that mean if y increases x will increase too and the other way around if y decreases x will decrease too.

an easy way to solve this is to make all values into fraction ik it sounds confusing lemme explain it. so if we say
image and add the values of the known
image we can say that if
image is equal to
image

now we just solve it for x


image

hence when y is 15 x will be 5

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