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During the summer, Pamela works on her uncle's dairy farm. One of Pamela's many chores is to load bales of hay onto a wagon and haul them from the field into the barn. There is a proportional relationship between the number of wagon loads, x, and the number of bales of hay Pamela can haul, y.

In 1 wagon load, Pamela can haul 5 bales. Write the equation for the relationship between x and y.

y=

During the summer, Pamela works on her uncle's dairy farm. One of Pamela's many chores-example-1
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y=5x since each wagon can hold 5 bales
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